Matt, is it totally lost on you that Donald Trump has gone much further than Ron ever did into 9/11 truther land and is kicking everybody's ass? Seriously the problem never was what Ron said. At least not totally. He was hamstrung by the same "Don't say that" strategy that has Rand bottled up.
Here's the problem. All of a sudden people care about national security and they want something done. Ron and Rand on the subject talk about what not to do. Months ago, before Donald Trump said it I was saying Rand should say bomb the ISIS controlled oil fields. People vehemently attacked me for saying that. But to me it was obvious. ISIS makes most of its money selling oil. Bombing ISIS troops wasn't doing anything but helping them grow. Their money supply needs to be cut off. Obama was not bombing the oil fields. Then Trump came out and said "bomb the oil fields." Finally Obama started taking out oil tankers and Britain is bombing the oil fields.
Now, I know ISIS is totally a product of U.S. intervention in Syria. The Ben Swann report proves that. But to get people to listen long enough to hear you say that you have to come up with a pro-active strategy to deal with the threat people already see. My suggestion at this point? Rand needs to start using the "T" word as in "treason." People like John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Hillary Clinton are traitors to this country for giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the U.S. Yes. Shake those people up by using over the top language. That is what Donald Trump is doing. Rand needs to do a speech in which he outlines the fact that ISIS is the greatest threat to western civilization since Adolf Hitler. Then he needs to hearken back to our World War II alliance with Stalin to defeat Hitler and compare Putin to a "kindler gentler" Stalin. He needs to make the point that we should listen to the call made by France and the European Union for the United States to cooperate with Russia in totally defeating ISIS and all of the Syrian rebels! Yes. Take the gloves off and declare that John McCain's "moderate jihadists" are now enemies of the U.S. because they at times work together with ISIS and share the same ultimate ISIS goal of defeating Assad. He must declare openly that defeating Assad goes against the interests of the U.S. and if we are serious about standing with the French people in the wake of a brutal terror attack, it is time we recognize this. Now the trick is how to do that without throwing the Kurds under the bus. That shouldn't be too hard because the Kurds are more concerned about survival than they are about "democracy" in Syria. Also Turkey is playing both sides when it comes to ISIS and Turkey is the main enemy of the Kurds. This is a delicate situation as Turkey is a NATO ally. But for the sake of the campaign such geopolitical intricacies don't matter.
No but I'm sure he appreciates your stupidity. I support Ron Paul's foreign policy. At times during this election cycle Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Ted Cruz have parrotted parts of it. In a way that's a good thing because it shows his ideas are winning.
