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Neil Cavuto: There are frequent calls for America’s military to start intervening, should it? Ron Paul, the former Republican Congressman and presidential candidate, says no, be careful, be very careful. Congressman, what do you think of this?
Ron Paul: I think it would be foolish, I think what we have been doing for so many years has been very foolish. I think that they ought to try to understand what blowback is all about and what the CIA has talked about and what Michael Scheuer has demonstrated so often in his work in the CIA. It’s just way too much, it hurts us to no end. One of the points I made when I gave my last little talk on the House floor, was that one of the trends that we’re probably facing was violent anti-Americanism, and it’s engulfing the world, and I think this is what’s happening over there. We have a mess in Egypt now, and we don’t know exactly what we’re supposed to be doing in Syria, and we end up supporting the bad guys. And even Hillary had an expression for it: “How did we know the bad guys were going to get these things?” And I think what’s happening in Mali right now with these hostages spun off from us getting involved in Libya and getting rid of Gaddafi. So one thing leads to another, and I just think that all these problems that we have make my case very clear, that we should have followed the Founders’ advice of staying out of entangling alliances and staying out of the internal affairs of other nations, mind our own business and save a dollar now and then, because we’re flat out broke.
Neil Cavuto: Well, the argument you get back, as you know, Congressman, is that we’ll regret that, because we essentially give the bad guys free run. Now the argument against what they were just claiming is that, well, terrorist are not idiots, they can pack up and leave. So if things get dicey for them in Afghanistan or Pakistan, apparently they move to Mali or Algeria or what have you. But they seem to be pretty good at movement. So I guess the bigger question is, should we do anything about that, or do we just let them brazenly grow unobstructed.
Ron Paul: Well, what we have to decide is why we have the problem. If we come down on the side that it’s spontaneous and they hate Americans, there’s Al-Qaida that kill us and they don’t like our prosperity and they don’t like our freedoms, maybe we should keep chasing them. But if the problem of these threats towards us and the disruptions is because we’re involved, then the answer is to be less involved.
Neil Cavuto: But what if it’s a little bit more than that, Congressman? I know you and I had a chat about this before; what if they really do hate us, they hate everything we stand for, and they really are all about … whatever our overtures towards the Muslim community are like, that they’re all about disgruntles, they just can’t stand us, they want us dead.
Ron Paul: Well, they might ask the same question, what if we didn’t hate Muslims? I mean, we have to build up a lot of hatred for us to go 6,000 miles away and kill people with drones, and this is where the conflict is coming. We have to beat the drums of war and this hatred that we have to go over and do these things. And then, all of a sudden, we have an epidemic of suicides of American soldiers who come back feeling, “What am I doing over here shooting these drone missiles, and little kids are dying and innocent people dying”. And now more people die from suicide, our soldiers are committing suicides. So I think it’s a failed policy, it doesn’t accomplish anything, and we don’t understand it. As long as we don’t want to look … we’re either in denial or we don’t want to understand it. But the CIA actually helps us on this to explain why there is retaliation, and if we don’t accept that, this is going to get much worse. And there are predictions that right now just because they haven’t hit us here at home, doesn’t mean that they’re starting to like us anymore. I think the problem is growing, it’s going to get a lot worse as long as we think we’re the king of the world.
Neil Cavuto: Ron Paul, thank you very much, I think.
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“Why you people always know things that the majority doesn’t know?”
Some people research things themselves others blindly parrot what the CNN lady told them.
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[Cont.] And they did a very good job of deceiving not only non-muslims, but even muslims, about what Islam actually is. Those extremist madrassah schools were funded and started by American government.
It’s just a puppet game.
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It’s so simple, and many people don’t seem to understand it. Muslims don’t “hate Americans;” it honestly has very little to do with religion, if anything. It has to do with the invasion of foreign nations, illegal wars, unjustified violence, killing of MOSTLY CIVILIANS, and a desire of America to gain power and influence all over the world. They don’t “hate Americans,” they hate being invaded, as anyone would. They used the religion card to gain popular support, that’s it.
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All you know is an anti-White version of history.
Muslims conquered hundreds of millions, killed tens of millions and enslaved at least one million Whites.
Japan has a horrible colonial record including using rape as a tactic.
Aztecs, Mayans and Zulus all conquered & enslaved.
“Native Americans” (i.e. Siberian-Indians) were the first slave owners in North America.
This is common to ALL humans
But you ONLY demand the geNOcide of one people, White people
Anti-racist is a code for anti-White
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what about the native americans who lived in north america long before the white man arrived and then got their land culture taken away. What about colonialism that the British, French, Spain, and many other European nations occupied and took other nations resources. Before you criticize multiculturalism, take a look at the history of what the white person did.
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what about the native americans who lived in north america long before the white man arrived and then got their land culture taken away. What about colonialism that the British, French, Spain, and many other European nations occupied and took other nations resources. Before you criticize multiculturalism, take a look at the history of what the white person did.
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This man speeks shit Ron is trying to speek about issue and he is dirwearsing the subject …and tellking that somone hates somthing ower somthing….WTF dude
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Ron Paul for King indeed! Well, Libertarian King of a Libertarian Kingdom of America which rises out of the ashes of the corrupted United States of America, a democratic republic which failed. The Founding Fathers knew their utopian dream turned into a dystopic nightmare.
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All you just did was paraphrase what you already said. I know how to read, i get it.
But again, Ron Paul’s followers are FAR more engaged than the token Obama supporter. The average Obama supporter probably doesn’t know who Ron Paul is, which would prove my point.
You could levy that same attack on the supporters of ANY candidate, simply on the basis that you don’t like that candidate. So there really is no equivalence.
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My point is that Ron Paul followers don’t have a right to refer to the followers of other politicians as “mindless morons”, because they really shouldn’t throw stones in glass houses.
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I don’t see the equivalence. Obama was paraded around as some kind of savant, the mainstream media gave him decidedly positive coverage (overall) the very minute this Junior Senator came out of nowhere and stepped on the scene.
As the first black president, which swept an entire demographic off their feet, and that generated a lot of buzz. Very conducive to a blind following.
OTOH, Ron Paul was virtually blacked out by the MSM. To even know who he IS means one has to be paying SOME attention.
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3 weeks later we got the example
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My point is that, based on their behaviour, Ron Paul followers are “mindless morons”, and one of them referring to Obama followers as such really is the pot calling the kettle black.
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At least they are, for the most part, honest about their positions; much like their ‘inspiration’ Ron Paul is, in stark contrast to CANDIDATE Obama—-> PRESIDENT Obama.
I voted Obama in 2008 but he’s been pretty disappointing.
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Yes! because China is now taking over the throne… because of America’s past 3 and present presidents…
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America is not the king of the world!!!! Far from
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This anchor is a dick. Fox is a fucking joke.
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Right, but Ron Paul’s followers are completely rational, right?
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How ’bout it? Some apples roll away from the tree, it seems
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Interviewer,”ron paul, thank you very much I think?” Thinking about??? That was weird.
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is ron paul the only good man in senate? it looks to be true to me. am I missing something or someone?
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I just wish Ron would have passed some more of his wisdom to Rand.
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Me too
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many cops mean well and would like to protect people but they cant they protect and uphold the ideologies of capitalist slavery, capitalism is the law of inequallity and ensures 90% of society remains miserable and trapped in a societal prison where the essential things in life such as having a home to live in becomes more and more unnaccessible by controling wages and letting stock prices of homes reach insane levels so that everyone eventually becomes homeless ,working is therefore futile
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and by the way ron paul is pro life simply because government needs servants, less births means less working slaves for goverment, and less pain and monatary slavery to inflict upon poeple, and the more births and immigrants there are the more supply shortages there are and the more society suffers a capitalist politicians job is to enslave and torture its people by the power of money and the benchmen they call cops
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life is one big useless pointless mecanical voyage so much that they had to invent the concept of good and evil to create wars, so to all the overpaid thieving harrassing violence loving opressive politicians, sport celebrities, and company ceos and capitalism defending philisophers, a great big fuck you to all of you, for the slavery opression and pain youve caused,for thousands of years the game is almost over you assholes, count your blessings while you can the restof us are done with u
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i dont blame all americans but in general america is a huge piece of worthlesss garbage
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y r most people in america mindless fucks you are losing more of ur freedom everyday and ur security by being in every country it doesnt help also stop NDAA and the patriot act wake up idiotic america
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It’s haed not to hate america,look this country is so wicked that we train these so called
muslim fighters to turn attention away from peaceful relations.There r those among us that believe,they can control the attitude of the american people by staging these attacks.
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lol at the. they hate us for our freedoms argument.
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You’re all gonna die
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You’re all gonna die
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I agree the U.S’s country is ‘f*****g them, not muslims’…and i agree the U.S is not the king of the world but high elected officials of arab and african nation are directly requesting United States assistance. The Saudi’s turned down Bin Laden when he offered his assistance an opted to have the U.S repel Iraq. Who stopped Iran and Iraq? it wasn’t a muslim league or a decisive victory. So long story short, good luck to muslim nations without there elected father bailing them out. God bless.
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Who the only thing they care about is food stamps.
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Thanks Neil, you were the only one on FNC that showed respect and had Dr. Paul on a regular basis. Why didn’t Neil support Dr. Paul? He saw what happend to the Judge.
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