Reply #1: Ron Paul is often nutty

[fujiyama]

but he's the ONLY candidate from either major party to simply say that we should stop treating Israel as this pathetic beggar nation, and tell them to fend for themselves...

It's time to cut this cord. Israel is a sovereign nation. We should not be fighting that country's wars for them. At the same time, that entails us staying out of their business when it comes to deciding its foreign policy. Let them decide how to solve their own demographic and occupational crisis. In time, maybe they will learn that the continuous expansion of settlements is not doing them any good. But ultimately, these little carrot and stick initiatives and games have to simply STOP.

And this whole notion of military aid should stop altogether - that means absolutely no aid for Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, or whatever other nation. I'm sick of my taxes supporting thuggish authoritarian regimes around the world...