Video update: Ron Paul owns foreign policy questions on Fox with Greta Van Susteren

[Matthanuf06]

In Syria, he would work out a diplomatic solution and stop intervening. For Iran, he would let Israel deal with them, but pointed out Iran is not even a threat to Israel anyway. For the Egypt hostages, he said we obviously have an obligation to get the hostages out of there and would work out a diplomatic situation. But the eggs are already scrambled. Things like this are the consequences of intervention over there. What else could he have said?

I would have focused on answering the questions clearly. His answers were somewhat vague and deeply imbedded in his stump on what caused this mess. Maybe it's a pet peeve, but I hate when politicians duck questions. He could have still pointed out the cause, but his solution should have been far clearer

 

[jmdrake]

If Ron Paul would just quote Rick Santorum on this issue HE WOULD WIN THIS DAMN NOMINATION!



That said, good video. He pwned Greta on the Egypt question.

 

[MooCowzRock]

If Ron Paul would just quote Rick Santorum on this issue HE WOULD WIN THIS DAMN NOMINATION!



That said, good video. He pwned Greta on the Egypt question.

lol wow, please tell me that video is in context...

 

[devil21]

I thought Greta was fair and Ron was a mixed bag. Great with the stump, great with sound bites, but bad with specifics. Greta asked him numerous times about what he would do about foreign issues right now, he barely answered and constantly moved towards why we got here. That's important, but while we need a good FP to avoid these situations in the future; we need to actually solve the issues in the present. A sensible FP doesn't include a time machine to go back and implement a sensible policy that would avoid current issues. Paul has to clean up others mess, and he needs to be clear on how he will clean it up....as well as how he would stop it from happening as much in the future

That's odd since Paul said he would diplomatically talk with Egypt about the imprisoned Americans, leave Israel to handle it's own issues with Iran, and Syria isn't our concern. His answer is basically "I wouldn't do anything interventionary as President". He actually did answer the questions. It's not his mess to clean up nor our mess to pay for the clean up. Have you been paying any attention to what Paul stands for???? If Americans and Republicans only want to hear how much money and effort WE will spend to clean up other country's problems then they are already lost and the message of non-intervention is falling on deaf ears.

 

[RonPaul101.com]

Hopefully he is going to test out some new language. It's time for debates to be substantial for him.

I think he did well on the Greta show, but one tweak I would certainly make is change "...we can't afford another war, we're bankrupt..." to "...we can't afford another war without further destroying the American economy and raising everyone's taxes..."

Same message, my version is less arbitrary and instills more fear/reality. You can't say we've been bankrupt technically since 1971, and then say war will bankrupt us - that tells uninformed voters that being bankrupt is normal behavior for us.

 

[DEGuy]

I really think he ought to stop saying he "gets more support from the military" and start saying he "gets more support from military members" It rankles me when he claims support from an inherent federal agency instead of the more correct source, it's people and families.

 

[jmdrake]

lol wow, please tell me that video is in context...

I've not seen the full context of the video. But at a certain level it doesn't matter. We live in the age of sound bite journalism. The campaign should get this sound bite out there and make Santorum come up with the context. This should be in a commercial.

 

[anewvoice]

Just saw it, WOW, I've never seen Ron attack with his foreign policy like that, that was inspiring!

 

[Article V]

I think he did well on the Greta show, but one tweak I would certainly make is change "...we can't afford another war, we're bankrupt..." to "...we can't afford another war without further destroying the American economy and raising everyone's taxes..."

Same message, my version is less arbitrary and instills more fear/reality. You can't say we've been bankrupt technically since 1971, and then say war will bankrupt us - that tells uninformed voters that being bankrupt is normal behavior for us.

^^^This. I agree 100%.

Uneducated voters don't understand "we're bankrupt" since we regularly keep spending money. To them, what difference does it make if we're bankrupt if the US somehow is still able to keep spending and borrowing?

In a world where the masses have been taught to believe "deficits don't matter" and "WWII got us out of the Depression," your phrasing of the bankruptcy message will make the dangerous truth that much more real and present. Ron needs to continue to refine his foreign policy phrasing so the reality of the message is truly palpable.

 

[centure7]

This was Ron Pauls best interview ever! Congratulations to Ron Paul!

 

[Matthanuf06]

That's odd since Paul said he would diplomatically talk with Egypt about the imprisoned Americans, leave Israel to handle it's own issues with Iran, and Syria isn't our concern. His answer is basically "I wouldn't do anything interventionary as President". He actually did answer the questions. It's not his mess to clean up nor our mess to pay for the clean up. Have you been paying any attention to what Paul stands for???? If Americans and Republicans only want to hear how much money and effort WE will spend to clean up other country's problems then they are already lost and the message of non-intervention is falling on deaf ears.

Um, it is his mess to clean up, especially if he is POTUS. The POTUS is supposed to have solutions. My point was his answers were not clear to the avg viewer. Greta has to ask numerous times to a pretty basic question. His solutions were mumbled deep into his responses that our policies were what got us into this mess. Yes, that's important, but you still have to solve it whether or not we helped create it. At some point Americans want to hear solutions rather than just blaming us and the past.

 

[affa]

Um, it is his mess to clean up, especially if he is POTUS. The POTUS is supposed to have solutions. My point was his answers were not clear to the avg viewer. Greta has to ask numerous times to a pretty basic question. His solutions were mumbled deep into his responses that our policies were what got us into this mess. Yes, that's important, but you still have to solve it whether or not we helped create it. At some point Americans want to hear solutions rather than just blaming us and the past.

he offered solutions. just because you refuse to hear them, doesn't change that.

ps- your choice of language - that Ron Paul 'mumbled', that he 'blamed us', is questionable at best. it makes you sound more like a detractor than a supporter, for what it's worth.

especially when everyone is screaming 'Homerun' and you're telling us he answered badly.

 

[socal]

Possible gotcha question in a future interview that could be based on the following quotes, and that RP needs to be prepared for,

Ron Paul On Fox's Off The Record Talking Foreign Policy 02/06/12 [5:05]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrUavLPgLqY

"Let Israel deal with it ... They took out Iraq's nuclear power plant back in the 80's, I defended them for it ..."

Ron Paul Speech At St. Cloud, MN Rally 2/6/12 [12:23]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNzF_mWRDnE

"But it doesn't mean that you have the right, because someone's running a country 6,000 miles away from us, and they're not running it the way they should, it doesn't give us right to do what they call preemptive war. Preemptive war is equivalent to aggression..."

 

[cdw]

Airing Date Feb 06, 2012

 

[George_K]

I love how he immediately tells her to let him finish when she tries to interrupt. Cut the crap early on.

 

[Butchie]

Ron should talk about all the drone strikes against civilians, and how it would make us feel if someone launched a missile at a funeral in Arlington cemetary and took out a couple dozen innocent mourners. That's effectively what we're doing in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq right now, and we are going to get HUGE blowback from that some day. Even if it doesn't happen for 10 years, it's definitely coming - how could it not be? I don't think any other candidate has addressed the issues of "drones" as a general subject so far, and how we have taken to remote control assassination without any trial or any concern for due process to determine if people are actually guilty or not.

BTW - Ron should do interviews like this with Cavuto - he's probably the most fair interviewer on Fox other than the Judge.

No he shouldn't, NeoCons could care less about "how would you feel if it was done to you" argument, they don't view other people as equal to them, they mostly see Muslims as evil and deserve to die, so this is a completely useless tactic.

 

[Czolgosz]

Ron can't give a simple answer to something w/o providing the background logic. He does this because he understands the audience and the propaganda machine.

 

[Butchie]

That's odd since Paul said he would diplomatically talk with Egypt about the imprisoned Americans, leave Israel to handle it's own issues with Iran, and Syria isn't our concern. His answer is basically "I wouldn't do anything interventionary as President". He actually did answer the questions. It's not his mess to clean up nor our mess to pay for the clean up. Have you been paying any attention to what Paul stands for???? If Americans and Republicans only want to hear how much money and effort WE will spend to clean up other country's problems then they are already lost and the message of non-intervention is falling on deaf ears.

Yes and no, I feel he should LEAD OFF by answering the question, then switch into why and how it came to be, regardless of fault, we are where we are, there's no going back, so deal with what is and then ofcourse, speak on how it happened and how to prevent it in the future.

 

[Salvial]

Solid interview.

My input to the above argument. You people need to believe in others. Even the so called "average viewers." As libertarians we put a lot of trust in that "average" person. If you don't trust the average person to understand logic - how can you trust him to logically participate in a free society?

Average is subjective & I believe that average humans are remarkably resilient even though their critical thinking skills have been purposefully, institutionally squashed. We're all here, aren't we?

 

[Matthanuf06]

he offered solutions. just because you refuse to hear them, doesn't change that.

ps- your choice of language - that Ron Paul 'mumbled', that he 'blamed us', is questionable at best. it makes you sound more like a detractor than a supporter, for what it's worth.

especially when everyone is screaming 'Homerun' and you're telling us he answered badly.

I try to look at it from a neutral point of view. Frankly it doesn't matter what you think the interview was like. Not at all. And it doesn't matter what I thought either. What matters is what the Grandmas and Grandpas watching thought. Most people here think every time Paul speaks that he does a tremendous job, even if he doesn't win over voters. Go re-watch the clip, Greta asked the same question a few times, and Paul was ducking it. Yes, for people like us he snuck the answer in, but to Grandma watching she hears him ducking the question. The answer needs to be after the question, not after a paragraph or two explaning why we got here. And to Grandma, since why we got here is at least partially due to our behavior, and since Grandma has been voting for the bulk of the time, then yes, she thinks he is blaming her.

And saying that one cannot say Paul "mumbled" or gave a bad answer while also being a supporter makes you seem like a biased person that cannot live in reality. Every single one of us should be married to the ideology, to the ideas, and not to the candidate. Paul is certainly fallible. He is not some deity. The sooner you realize he is human and can make mistakes the better.