As has been previously mentioned, I attended CPAC last year. Ron Paul spoke then, on the second day just as he did this year. His speech consisted of the same rhetoric that was in his previous speech (aka broken record). Unfortunately, if he were to change his speech he would probably loose his followers, and he has some devout followers. They all sat in the same area, and were fully decked out in Ron Paul Flair. Several of the Ron Paul fans are also inconsiderate; many of them booed a Congressman, and they also left right after Rep. Paul’s speech.
Some of Paul’s speech, as usual, covered foreign policy; Paul has a non-interventionalist view of foreign policy. His view seems makes me believe that his is disconnected from reality. He does not think that the U.S. should involve it self in others nations’ affairs, instead, we should only be concerned with national security at home. His foreign policy approach is not completely absurd. President George Washington spoke similar rhetoric in his farewell well address, but Washington didn’t foresee how quickly the world would shrink as technology advanced.
Some Paul advocates believe that the U.S. should have never involved itself with conflicts abroad, but the simple fact is, we did. There is no turning back. If we try to retire from the national stage and hide under a rock, a heavy tide will come, turn over the rock, and submerse us. We must stand strong and remain a superpower.
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