I'm glad we agree Ron Paul is great on domestic policy. He is not only the champion of liberty and a strict constitutionalist, he understands the relationship between the free market and financial well being. He called the present economic problems long before any of the other empty suit Republican candidates knew what was up.
That's because he UNDERSTANDS things he doesn't merely parrot sound bites.
I do think you are failing to recognize the financial cost of an interventionist foreign policy. It not only causes destruction of human life and property, it is one of the biggest contributors to our being broke.
The connection between our bankrupt country (domestic) and our interventionist
foreign policy is clear. One of the reasons this country is deeply in debt is because of the foreign policy of being the world police. They ARE very much CONNECTED.
When the Soviets were in Afghanistan we supported the same guys, "freedom fighters" we now oppose. The reasons we are in the middle east are not to free anybody. We are there to keep tabs on the oil and to maintain our empire. Did you know there is a huge foreign embassy being built by the US in Iraq...any idea of the cost of that or why it is being built?
Did you know that there are about 180 countries in the world and the U.S. has a military presence in about 130 of them? How woud you like it if YOUR country were occupied? A policy of aggression and being the world police will not end well.
Excess machismo like the kind espoused
by chicken hawks like Bush and Cheney and now Obama will lead to the end of this country....the Soviet empire collapsed for the same reasons we will. Maintaining a welfare / war fare state costs money.
I recommend learning a chinese dialect.