Good stuff. I'll keep plugging away. I remember my Dad arguing with my Granddad about politics growing up. I always though my granddad was the stubborn one...
Thanks for your insight micahnelson. I enjoy your writings on your page also :) I think my dad also believes we are stuck over there because of our dependence on mideastern oil. Aren't we only getting like 18% of our oil from the middle east now? I think we get the most from Canada now.
Thanks for the responses. His email I posted is actually a response to that video you told me to show him :/ So that didn't work. I think I get so friggin frustrated that he can't see it my way that I get angry and can't argue well. Makes me either want to give up or slap him :)
Good points. What about the "nuclear threat" in Iran? I tried using the cold war as an example of why some all out nuclear war wouldn't happen, but he thinks there are some third world countries out there that would be willing to use them against us if Iran gave them the ability. I...
I'm having the hardest time convincing my dead that Ron Paul's foreign policy isn't isolationism, and that we don't need to be over there fighting anymore. Here's his last email response to me:
I haven't seen anything to change my resolve that it's better to confront them in their backyard...