Ron Paul is a true leader. Here he is on the floor of the House yesterday denouncing the militant calls for blockading Iran and asking how Americans would feel if our ports were blocked. He notes that Iran’s missile-testing followed Israel’s war exercises demonstrating that its planes could reach Iran.
“There is nothing wrong with talking to people. We talked to the Soviets, in the midst of the Cold War… How many countries have nukes around them? Pakistan has them. India has them. Israel has them. We have them. China has them, the Soviets have them.”
Paul has an intellectual manner and a gracious way of speaking. He reaches out to American Jews. He quotes Congressmen Barney Frank and Robert Wexler saying that a blockade goes too far. He cites this beautiful statement by J Street— the new Israel lobby, he calls it–saying that Israel should not attack Iran, and the U.S. should not help Israel attack Iran.
I’m a cockeyed optimist. My country is gaining awareness day by day. Paul or his advisers Leon Hadar and Robert Pape will have a place in the Obama Administration.
(Thanks to Peter Voskamp for the headsup.)
