Ron Paul sounds like a right wing nut**. This is coming from me – who intends to vote based on gun possession. His most recent campaign ad basically has him endorsing the use of US military assassination as means of taking care of problems.
I remember being in fourth grade and wondering why we didn’t just go assassinate Saddam then. Yes, in fourth grade, that was my solution to Desert Storm. I don’t recall the exact explanation, but it boiled down to ‘assassinations are against the rules of war.’ Now, here we sit, 15 years later and a presidential candidate is calling for just that.
Personally, I still think it’s a good idea. Saves lots of time, money, lives, resources, etc. Just go whack the guy you want out of commission. The problem is that, when you are the most powerful nation on the face of the earth, examples and precedents need to be set. We cannot afford to show other countries that this is OK. We can also not afford to be blamed when some other organization takes someone out – and as the most powerful nation, I believe that is exactly what would happen.
**Must be punctuated as ‘right-wing nut’, not ‘right wing-nut’, because that would mean that he is the correct and simple pairing to a bolt.
