Pandering
McCain has to know what he is saying is a patently absurd attack on Dr. Paul. First, as it's been stated, every time the United States has gotten involved in a war since the beginning of the 20th Century, it's led to adverse consequences later down the road.
Warning: Long post ahead.
WWI was not our business and yet international business, media and banking interests coerced our leaders, such as Wilson, into sending our boys to die for nothing. We were no more allies with Britain than Germany at that point. It was merely propaganda and baiting which led to the general public's eventual outrage and change of opinion allowing for our involvement.
The Treaty of Versailles was a travesty orchestrated once again by banking interests which strangled Germany in particular. Just as that country was beginning to emerge from the heavy economic chains it was placed under, the U.S.-caused Great Depression hit on a worldwide scale. People in Germany looked for hope and in Adolf Hitler they saw a strong leader who offered just that, despite the potential tradeoff of liberty for security. Hitler provided employment and morale, a national sense of identity and belonging, and in return he began to seek their loyalty in implementing strict and sweeping policy changes and major rearmament.
It's a mistake to say that the world did not expect Hitler's Germany to make waves; in fact the international media was quite biased against him. When people reference the 1938 "Man of the Year" in Time they do not realize the article was a hit piece. Time wrote:
"But the figure of Adolf Hitler strode over a cringing Europe with all the swagger of a conqueror. Not the mere fact that the Fuhrer brought 10,500,000 more people (7,000,000 Austrians, 3,500,000 Sudetens) under his absolute rule made him the Man of 1938. Japan during the same time added tens of millions of Chinese to her empire. More significant was the fact Hitler became in 1938 the greatest threatening force that the democratic, freedom-loving world faces today...There is no guarantee that the have-not nations will go to sleep when they have taken what they now want from the haves. To those who watched the closing events of the year it seemed more than probable that the Man of 1938 may make 1939 a year to be remembered."
Anyone who had read Hitler's own words or heard his speeches would know of his intentions, which were to be the dominating political force in Europe, as Britain was at the time, and to eliminate the Soviet state and Communism across the continent. He did not seek, as far as history can tell, to create one country of Europe but to be the big dog on the block.
The United States public did not seek to enter this pissing contest which again did not directly involve us. Pathological liar and Communist FDR, having already done everything within his power to destroy the American republic since his first inauguration, now did everything he could to force Germany into war so that he could renounce his campaign promise to keep the United States out of the war. FDR, you see, was a sympathizer for Josef Stalin and the two became good friends through their wartime partnership, to even the bemusement of Winston Churchill. Thus as Germany had signed the Comintern Pact which promised that if Japan became involved in a war that Germany would join them, FDR aggressively worked to antagonize and cut off Japan from needed goods and commodities. This led to Pearl Harbor, which was at the very least a consequence of United States' ineptitude if not complicity. (sound familiar?)
So in short, American losses in the two largest wars could have been avoided had we invoked common sense in foreign policy. WWII was blowback from WWI. There were no real "good guys" among the world leaders in WWII. Only varying degrees of massive corruption among men with hidden agendas.
Hypothetically, a Ron Paul administration around the time of WWI would likely have sensibly handled our response and would not have aided either side to the great detriment of the other. (And of course the creation and implementation of the I.R.S. and Federal Reserve would have been unlikely) A Ron Paul administration around the time of WWII would not have intervened in European affairs without real provocation and instead would have built American defenses and used the opportunity to strengthen the U.S. financially through free trade while other countries would be suffering from war debts. The U.S. would have become indispensable to either side and would have had a much greater say in world affairs without any American bloodshed. Further, it is likely that Stalin, arguably far worse than Hitler, would have been soundly defeated without American intervention. Thus the Cold War would have never been. German and Jewish scientists who were persecuted by the Nazis would still have been allowed safe haven here and the Manhattan Project, competing with similar quickly progressing German projects, would likely have achieved similar success and would furthermore not be needed to destroy the innocent civilians of Japanese cities. As Dr. Paul would likely have taken on the I.R.S. and Federal Reserve policies of that day, the debts of the United States would be minimal and in fact, our prosperity would have been far beyond any other nation. The way in which we handled matters diplomatically would set an example for other nations and eventually, a more stable and democratic world might have developed, without enduring animosity from or against our nation.
Of course, this is all hypothetical. I'm betting though, that if it did come to war, President Paul would not be stupid enough to put his entire Pacific Fleet in one easily attackable port. That would be kind of like putting your command center next to a known terrorist target.
