“If we have no more wars, we’ll have been successful.”
That is one of the lofty goals of a new “special project” called the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, which was launched on Wednesday afternoon in Washington, D.C., bearing the name of its chairman and founder, a former Republican presidential candidate and former Texas congressman.
The new group is under the auspices of Paul’s Foundation for Rational Economics and Education (FREE), which Paul started in 1976 as a non-profit educational organization. It will limit itself to questions of foreign policy and civil liberties, and will not focus on writing long white papers, the executive director, Daniel McAdams, said at a press conference at the Capitol Hill Club. Instead, it will seek to be more dynamic, providing analysis and opinion on its website in a way that draws people in and responds to the fast-moving media culture.
“I haven’t had any young people come up to me and say, ‘You know what? We need more war,’” Paul said, speaking to a crowd of reporters....
Near the end, Paul challenged the idea that war can repair broken economies, noting that state power tends to increase during wartime. Whereas “war is the health of the state,” Paul said, “peace is the health of the people.”
