All these candidates are selling WAR which is out of the price range of most people. Ron Paul is selling Liberty at the cost of personal accountability.
Liberty is something that when all of us share and defend, creates a country that is based on Liberty. This means that any other country that would want to limit the Liberty of our country in an unjust way will be held accountable. War will only come when another country violates our Liberty.
Terrorist's are not countries. Terrorist groups are not countries. Terrorist organizations are not countries. War is a political action. War cannot be declared on any entity that has no political motive. If these terrorists are really trying to kill American's because of their "religion", or "spiritual beliefs", then their motivation in NOT political.
Therefor we must defend Liberty in a non-political way, which cannot include WAR. So how can we defend liberty in a non-political BI-PARTISAN way? Well that is easy, it's called the Rule of Law. Laws are not political in the sense that laws apply to everyone, equally. This included individuals, groups, and organizations. In order to effectively combat terrorism, and to effectively defend our Liberty, we must employ the correct weapons both offensively and defensively. Our best offensive weapon is Liberty itself. That is, the freedoms we enjoy all over the world because of our economic trade relations.
In order to defend our country from terrorism, EFFECTIVELY, we must pursue the Rule of Law, whereever it takes us. Instead of sending children and young adults with superior firepower to strafe and bomb countries where terrorist "might" live, we ought to utilize the existing Laws in those countries. Instead of having the attitude of trampling the Rule of Law, both at home and abroad, in order to stand up to defend our Liberty, we ought to take the opposite approach. IN other words, we have to STOP pretending like it is ok and desirable to attain JUSTICE at ANY and ALL COST! It is not ok.
We have gone down a path of defending our Liberty by destroying someone elses Liberty. This only serves to destroy Liberty in general. We must stop destroying Liberty in the name of Justice! Justice comes to those who wait! We must find virtue in mercy. Mercy on our enemies, mercy on our own weak and poor and aged. Justice and Mercy go hand in hand. The path of Liberty has been paved out ahead of us. We simply need to follow the signs!