Not at all I like Obama and think he is a good president and I will vote for him over Newt,Romney or Santorum I like that Obama is ending the wars,but Obama took 3 years to end Iraq and is taking 4 to end Afghanistan,Paul would have ended them immediately While Obama is less hawkish then the neo cons there is still the possibility he will go to war with Iran,Paul wont Obama continued The patriot act,airport molestation,homeland security etc,Paul will end them Obama continued corporate welfare/bailouts,Paul will never bail out corporations Even with Iraq over Obama continues to spend 700 billion a year on defense,Paul will drastically reduce spending on the military industrial complex Obama has continued the drug war.While I dont think Paul will legalize all drugs at the least I think he will try to legalize marijuana and fight to lesson the penalties of non violent drug offenses.Paul has said he would pardon all non violent drug offenders These are some of the reasons I will vote for Paul over Obama
My scores were for correctness, they were not the odds of winning the presidential election. Ron Paul has better than 0% chance of winning but the odds are indeed very low because most Americans aren't very bright.
I know, I was giving you a hard time. But I still say the probability of Ron Paul becoming president is zero. Which technically means it almost surely won't happen, not that it's impossible
If you were to leave the decision of whether or not to go to war up to the Generals, you can pretty much guarantee that you will always be at war. Those guys dont make a name for themselves by sitting on the sidelines, and they have all have aspirations to be the next George S. Patton.
First of all, you might want to re-read what I wrote because I wasn't suggesting "we leave the decision of whether or not to go to war up to the generals." Second, the general officer corps does need to be reformed because even one self-serving careerist is too many and there are a lot. But war is that last thing any decent general wants. And when there is one, some actually want to participate because they believe they can do the best job by accomplishing the mission while minimizing casualties. Not everyone's out to make a name for themselves and you can't indict them all like that.
+ 1 MacArthur wanted to nuke China.The Generals wanted JFK to bomb Russian soldiers during the Cuban missile crisis.Scary to think what those Generals recommendations would have lead to