jmdrake
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Okay. It's obvious to everyone here that Rand and Ron Paul are 100% right on what caused ISIS and how to stop it. The problem is that boobus Americanus is looking for "Well what are you going to do" as opposed to long winded lectures on "What should we not have done that we did already." It's like this. You've got a patient dying of lung cancer. He's still smoking. Obviously he needs to quit smoking. But you know what he wants to hear from his doctor first? "Doc what are you going to do?" Patients need hope. People need hope. Sometimes hope comes from a placebo. Make people think you are doing something effective and, if it's a problem that will fix itself if you just stop smoking (or doing whatever unhealthy behavior you are doing), then maybe they'll stick with the program long enough for it to work.
Here's an example of Rand Paul not saying what he would actually do about ISIS.
Now to be fair, this was so early in the game that he couldn't talk about things like pressuring our allies to stop finding ISIS and ISIS related groups, not letting refugees in from countries that are breeding grounds for terrorism, or cooperating with Putin against ISIS. (I don't know if Rand said that last one, but he should.) Here are a few things Rand should have said in the above interview that would have been proactive. He eventually said one or more of these.
1) Arm the Kurds. Rand pointed out that the Shiites didn't stand and fight. But the Kurds did. (And Rand later stated "arm the Kurds")
2) Stop arming the rebels. Rand kind of said that in the interview but not forcefully enough.
3) End the policy of regime change in Syria and cooperate with the Assad regime against the insurgency. To my knowledge Rand hasn't said that. It's a gutsy move. But it's true. Assad isn't the problem in Syria. He's the solution.
Please post other proactive ideas in this thread. I think they should be compiled into a blog. The domain name StopISISNow.com is still available for $2.95. StopISIS.com is available as well...for $1,895.00. I think "StopISISNow.com" is good enough. StopTerrorism.com is taken but StopTerrorism.info is available. We do ourselves no good reaching republican voters with websites like "antiwar.com" or "noninterventionism.com." Folks need to hear what a liberty candidate will do about radical Islamic terrorism, not just what he won't do.
Here's an example of Rand Paul not saying what he would actually do about ISIS.
Now to be fair, this was so early in the game that he couldn't talk about things like pressuring our allies to stop finding ISIS and ISIS related groups, not letting refugees in from countries that are breeding grounds for terrorism, or cooperating with Putin against ISIS. (I don't know if Rand said that last one, but he should.) Here are a few things Rand should have said in the above interview that would have been proactive. He eventually said one or more of these.
1) Arm the Kurds. Rand pointed out that the Shiites didn't stand and fight. But the Kurds did. (And Rand later stated "arm the Kurds")
2) Stop arming the rebels. Rand kind of said that in the interview but not forcefully enough.
3) End the policy of regime change in Syria and cooperate with the Assad regime against the insurgency. To my knowledge Rand hasn't said that. It's a gutsy move. But it's true. Assad isn't the problem in Syria. He's the solution.
Please post other proactive ideas in this thread. I think they should be compiled into a blog. The domain name StopISISNow.com is still available for $2.95. StopISIS.com is available as well...for $1,895.00. I think "StopISISNow.com" is good enough. StopTerrorism.com is taken but StopTerrorism.info is available. We do ourselves no good reaching republican voters with websites like "antiwar.com" or "noninterventionism.com." Folks need to hear what a liberty candidate will do about radical Islamic terrorism, not just what he won't do.
