WorldNetDaily Hit Piece/Action Needed

[stalcottsmith]

Here is what I wrote -- I did not have long to spend on it. There are probably many other points to make.

Joseph,

I read your article attacking Ron Paul today on World Net Daily. Your contradiction and misjudgment compels my response. To wit:

"He illustrated his point by blaming the 1979 Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini revolution on CIA involvement in installing the shah 26 years earlier, not on U.S. undermining of the shah in his last days in power."

Either way, it is US intervention.

"It would be disastrous if we cut and run now as Ron Paul suggests."

I do not accept this at all. This is related to the notion of sunk costs. No matter how far you've gone down the wrong road, turn back.

Islamism would burn itself out if we were not fanning the flames of hatred and ethnic strife in their home countries. What will the blowback be in 10 or 20 years if we continue? We should stop giving the radicals what they want which is war, strife and chaos. It strengthens their hand and pulls us in deeper. Even if intervention could result in a positive outcome, we do not have the cultural understanding, wisdom, ruthlessness and fortitude to truly do what would be required. That is the business of empire and I want no part of it.

People are coming to their senses and waking up. I voted for GWB. I used to believe as you do, but no longer. I urge you to reconsider.

Sincerely,

 

[RonPaul4President]

Listen people. When you go to this site you generate hits. They sell advertising based on their hit count. Please ignore these jerks. Everytime you go to their site to read their crap you are putting money in their pockets. You are playing right into their hands.

 

[jon_perez]

America has made many foreign policy mistakes in my lifetime. We have indeed intervened militarily too often. I have preached non-interventionism many times. However, America is under siege from Islamo-fascist enemies. We've been attacked – the worst ever in our history. This is no time to back down or even to appear to be weak.

I find it hard to blame people who have this point of view since there is some evidence to support their assertions. The way to go at this is to debate whether the current foreign policy is lessening the number of "Islamofascists" (people who hate America for its own sake) or increasing their influence by justifying their beliefs with an interventionist foreign policy.

It would be disastrous if we cut and run now as Ron Paul suggests.

"Cut and run" can easily be re-framed as "cut your losses while you still can". Ron Paul's excellent point about Vietnam comes to mind. There was no glory to be had staying in Vietnam, much as self-styled patriots tried to insist otherwise back then.

Let me tell you something else that disturbed me about Paul's position on amnesty for illegal aliens.

In the most recent debate, he implied amnesty wouldn't be such a bad idea if we could stop attracting illegal aliens with welfare-state programs.

This demonstrates, again, a fundamental misunderstanding of why illegal immigration is so threatening to our country.

When it comes to Iraq, I think it's hard to change Farah's beliefs, but on this issue of immigration, I believe he has truly misunderstood Paul. Paul has explained brilliantly the root of the problem of illegal immigration which is indeed that these immigrants are being attracted by "welfare state programs" and Paul, as a conservative, wants these programs abolished. Paul has NEVER stated that this is a substitute for securing the borders, just that securing the borders would not be as effective as refusing welfare for illegals.

I think when it comes to this issue, Farah can still be convinced to see the wisdom of Paul's position.

 

[Bob Cochran]

Paul said it was America's history of interventionism in the Middle East that sparked our problems with terrorism.

Well, y'know what?

THAT'S ACTUALLY TRUE!

It would be disastrous if we cut and run now as Ron Paul suggests.

.......it's disastrous NOW!!!

 

[LastoftheMohicans]

Listen people. When you go to this site you generate hits. They sell advertising based on their hit count. Please ignore these jerks. Everytime you go to their site to read their crap you are putting money in their pockets. You are playing right into their hands.

Maybe, we can have one person volunteer to read sites that do hit pieces on Ron Paul. And then they can report back, quoting the article, to the forum with an email address that everyone can use to voice their opinion. This way we minimize the hits to their website but also keep appraised of what's going on.

 

[hambone1982]

Maybe, we can have one person volunteer to read sites that do hit pieces on Ron Paul. And then they can report back, quoting the article, to the forum with an email address that everyone can use to voice their opinion. This way we minimize the hits to their website but also keep appraised of what's going on.

I don't think that we're going to be able to boycott every site that has anti-Ron Paul propaganda on there. World Net Daily carries some really good articles from time to time - they carried the Article by Pat Buchanan that supported Ron Paul over Rudy Giuliani after the SC debate. They also cover a lot of the North American Union crap that the MSM refuses to acknowledge.