Mike: We only have about a minute and a half left, so a final question for you. Were you surprised by the reaction that you got when you experimented with Twitter a little bit and you tweeted something out about living by the sword and dying by the sword? I actually had to look that verse up and I found it in the book of Matthew. I understood where you were coming from when you posted that, but were you surprised by the reaction?
Ron Paul: I was surprised by some of the libertarians that didn’t understand it. It was the use of an incident which is always good, because people are thinking about that, to generalize it. I think the translation from the specific to the generalization didn’t work as well. If we are a country that’s pursuing an empire and use violence to spread our so-called goodness around the world, eventually it comes back to haunt us continuously. It wasn’t so much the individual. Just think, this whole epidemic of suicide we have and the violence and problems. We have to realize that’s all related to bad foreign policy. In a way it was similar to the grief I received over 9/11 being related to foreign policy. That was horrendous in the hooting and booing. Eventually I think, for the most part, I’ve won that argument. I think the libertarians have done a very good job in showing that bad ideas have bad consequences. This is the case and then all of a sudden there were a lot of articles after the dust settled. People came up and sort of dissected that out. It was a little bit of a surprise, but considering when you hit people with what they consider brand new and they don’t understand it, I don’t think we should be totally shocked over the reaction.
