Even an idiot is right every now and then. Doesn't mean the rest of the horseshit he's shoveling doesn't still stink.

idea of staying out, he's wrong in important ways.

I don't know whether the surge worked. Why do you think it didn't?

It did seem to help pacify things for awhile. But yes, it didn't last.

Kept the US together after the civil war. His pardoning of confederate soldiers and refusal to set reparations had a lot to do with it. He also didn't exclude the former southern states from decisions.

The fact that the Shia elected al-Maliki president, and he has done his best to ensure Shia supremacy and excluding everyone else cannot be blamed on the surge.

That being said, we gave them a chance at prosperity, if they want to fuck everything up, go right ahead.

Libertarians (capital L) sound pretty good on non interventionism and civil rights. However, go read the total message some time. It's not pretty. Don't do it after a large meal, especially.

He was also an isolationist against the Iraq War, but not for the reasons any of the rest of us were. Oh, and--like Rand Paul--99% of the rest of what he believes in was racist, homophobic, economically insane, dangerous conspiratorial bullshit.

But go ahead, join the other side if you have only one tiny sliver of thinking to consider.

I guaran-God-damn-tee that if Rand Paul were faced with this:



...he and that thing on his head would flee, too.

I'm fucking sick of doughboys like he and Glenn Beck criticizing the beaten down Iraqi people for not standing up to this:



Fuck them, the architects, and everyone who voted for this fucking war. Oh, and Idiot America sucked in by Saddam's mythical WMDs.

instead of being totally full of shit, he's a pint low...

He's opposed to putting ground troops in because he wants to leverage that to run for president.

But even more fundamentally, he's an isolationist which I think is wrong. While we should use our military far less, we also do a lot of good in the world and if we learned to exert our power in better ways, we could do more good.

because he admits liberals were right on the Iraq war? Or just another one who is fooled when a rabid repuke is cornered into being rational?

If Rand was president, he'd be shipping soldiers all over the world to protect US business interests. He kisses too much corporate ass to believe otherwise.

In this case, he's making a virtue out of taking a popular stand. Next, he'll come out in favor of apple pie.

I'd ask for whatever it is you're smoking, but I think it's the wrong thing.

We probably both believe in stopping at red lights, too. So fucking what? He's still an isolationist libertarian who happens to sometimes agree with me for all the wrong reasons.