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Originally Posted by PaleoRepublican
Half of the Americans will be unemployed. That will start a Civil War. That is, if a Libertarian President could bypass a Democrat (protectionist) Congress.
Duncan Hunters plan to leave Iraq is to displace American divisions with Iraqi divisions. That is not like Bush's plan which is to stay there indefinately. I'm an isolationist by the way, but not an irrational one like Ron Paul. You have to consider what is politically doable and what is not politically doable. For example; how would Ron Paul and a Democrat congress leave Europe?
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Well, even if he gives the Order to Leave Iraq immediatly, it won't be like a chaotic reatreat like after the Eastern Front Collapesed in WW2...
There will be a several month long moving troops out... brigade for brigade... perhaps 6-12 month...
I mean it is not Unrealistic to say get out... the US Gov simply decided to get in for no reason at all... but even that took several months to mass up the troops and then it took several month to dig in...
So it will take several months to dig out... Iraqies might take over the Bases one after another.
And at least there is a reason to get out... cost of live and money is outweighing the usefullness...
Nothing unrealistic there. Ron Paul just doesn't want to be a War President, because there is NO kind of War going on that would require the US to spend that much. It's not a Soviet Invasion of the Arabian Peninsula for gods sake...
BTW: Isolationism is stupid, Non-Interventionism & No Nationbuilding is what Ron Paul stands for... GIGANTIC difference. And for everything else, he wants that congress decides... that means, it is bizarre to believe that the US would allow a new Hitler to overrun the world, just because dictator Paul says the US should not intervene... Oh my, the US is a democracy, and not an elected Tyrany! If the people demand a certain action, their representatives should push for it and the President has to follow the will of the people.