Dr. Paul is an original thinker who forces people to question their assumptions. This is a great and valuable thing. Having said that, assumptions are not always wrong. Dr. Paul's foreign policy is not only "non-interventionalist", it is isolationist. Multilateral organizations such as the U.N., the WTO, the World Bank and the IMF are often royal pains in the rear, and yes, sometimes they take actions that are not in our immediate interest. Overall, however, they have helped to make the world a more stable and better place, and have improved our own ability to influence world events in a non-threatening way. If you contrast the years between the end of the first world war and the beginning of the second world war to the years following the end of the second world war, the improvements, for America and for the world, are clear. The institutions that this country shaped and built in the immediate aftermath of World War II are a good part of the reason. A return to a less bellicose foreign policy would be welcome; a return to isolationism would not.
Dr. Paul is an original thinker who forces people to question their assumptions. This is a great and valuable thing. Having said that, assumptions are not always wrong. Dr. Paul's foreign policy is not only "non-interventionalist", it is isolationist. Multilateral organizations such as the U.N., the WTO, the World Bank and the IMF are often royal pains in the rear, and yes, sometimes they take actions that are not in our immediate interest. Overall, however, they have helped to make the world a more stable and better place, and have improved our own ability to influence world events in a non-threatening way. If you contrast the years between the end of the first world war and the beginning of the second world war to the years following the end of the second world war, the improvements, for America and for the world, are clear. The institutions that this country shaped and built in the immediate aftermath of World War II are a good part of the reason. A return to a less bellicose foreign policy would be welcome; a return to isolationism would not.