Ron Paul isn’t backing down on his bold assertion that war is not the solution to our Iran problem. At the link is an article by a senior member of Paul’s campaign staff that makes the point I blogged about yesterday. But he says it more succinctly:
. . .Iran is not a threat to the United States. Not even close. To the degree that conservatives actually believe that Iran is some great “threat” takes the Right straight back to the Bush era, when a zeal for spending cuts took a backseat to war fever. That some in the Tea Party are occasionally the loudest in desiring U.S. action against Iran makes the prospects for smaller government even dimmer. Wanting to limit government and police the world simultaneously is a maddening yet enduring contradiction conservatives simply can no longer afford. Neither — quite literally — can this country. Amen, brother.
