How about Rasmussen polls? Does this look like someone who is only popular with a handful of nut cases? Someone who is not electable?
The entire Middle East is on the verge of a violent breakdown. Ron Paul's "live and let live" attitude toward these people will grow less and less popular, as it becomes more and more violent over there. The American people will want to elect a tough President. We already have had a push over for 4 years, who has done nothing but blame the United States. The voters are not going to want to elect yet another one who will do much the same. The changing times will consume what little there is left of Ron Paul. This alone will shatter the fantasy of his "foreign policy", along with his candidacy.
I strongly disagree,
The american people want a leader who is intelligent enough to put our country first.
Our foreign policies have been abysmal for the last 8 years, and I argue (as Ron Paul does) our presence there makes us even less safe.
I believe Americans are tired of US regime building abroad, and meddling in others countries affairs, and conducting wars
that are not only unsustainable and bankrupting our economy but a misuse of our military forces as defenders of THIS nation.
Ron Paul has it right.
JMHO
Semper Fi
edited to add:
If you want to play the CIA operative game to gather itel, fine . Go for it if the powers to be think it will help keep us safe. But pulling troops out of those rat holes does not make us less safe. there is nothing ground troops can do if Iran does indeed ever produce a nuke. that we cant do from the push of a button thousands of mile away.
"The entire Middle East is on the verge of a violent breakdown"and with regards to the ME being unstable .. when in thousands of years has that area of the world ever been stable.
The arguments not to pull the troops out holds no merit. and it's not our business to worry about a violent breakdown. we are not the world police.
Additionally , before we get a rewrite of history - not a single 9/11 bomber was an Iraqi, the majority were Saudi's with ties to Bin Ladin in Afghanistan, not Iraq. You know one of these guys..
Again Ron Paul is correct.
Bring 'em home and concentrate on securing our own borders not the borders of other countries.