the only person that does not already know this here at acalltopaul, is you. So you can go and do some research, and then come back to play with the big boys.

Your thought has no nuance. Not wanting to get killed in Vietnam was the sane position for anyone able to avoid it. That does not mean a person can never support the use of military force. There's nothing inconsistent about not volunteering to die in Vietnam and advocating using force against a scourge like ISIS. As for Ron Paul's record...

https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughLibertarianSpam/comments/3osyic/rand_paul...

The most shocking, damning bit of recovered Ron Paul history I've come across is that in June 1979, as Nicaragua’s brutal dictatorship under Somoza was losing its grip on power to leftwing Sandinista guerrillas and a popular national uprising, Ron Paul signed an open letter with dozens of rightwing Congressmen calling on President Carter to intervene militarily in Nicaragua to prop up the dictator and suppress the leftist uprising. The open letter signed by Rep. Paul was published as a full-page ad in the New York Times. At the time, it shocked and alienated some of the true-believer libertarian activists, people like Milton Mueller, then editor of the Libertarian Review, these days a leading figure in the Internet governance community and professor at Syracuse.

Back in 1979, Mueller described Ron Paul’s open call for military intervention into Nicaragua “disgraceful,” writing,

“Representative Paul is not consistently libertarian on foreign policy issues. He is to be commended for his stand on troop withdrawals. But his signature on a full-page ad calling for U.S. intervention in Nicaragua is, frankly, disgraceful.” The ad that Ron Paul signed onto is classic far-right, reactionary Republican militarism. A “principled” Ron Paul would’ve been more supportive of Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy, which by American presidential standards is the least interventionist presidency of the Cold War, if not the entire 20th century (the Harding-Coolidge years were a litany of gunboat diplomacy Marines and Navy interventions all across the globe, from Turkey to China and points in between).

The full page ad appeared in the Times on June 18, 1979, on page A15. It shows a big left arm reaching down from Cuba, stabbing Nicaragua with the sharp end of a sickle, blood pouring down from Nicaragua’s communist wound. The headline: “CONGRESS ASKS: PLEASE, MR. PRESIDENT, NOT ANOTHER CUBA!”

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