This has turned into a wonderful topic, I love it!
Why? Well lets recap! Ron Paul is crazy because he'd pull our tiny force from South Korea so that surely means North Korea would attack with their aging and obsolete force with little to no financial backing simply because their leader is completely irrational and wants war with the south at all cost! No matter how ridiculous this sounds! I mean lets be realistic, we all do this don't we? I mean if your neighbor has more than you don't you quickly run over, attack, and take all their stuff? You must!
Ron Paul is crazy because he'd greatly change the monetary system, you know the one that took full responsibility for causing "The Great Depression" in 2002. You see Ron Paul actually believes the Federal Reserve is what causes boom then busts economics, as historically hyper inflation and booms and busts weren't really an issue until the invention of central banking. Yes and many respected economists would also like to abolish the Federal Reserve, well because it's a conspiracy....... (bullshit it's just a shitty system) Hell even Bernanke said it was the Fed who facilitated the depression
Since its entire existence was predicated on its mission to prevent events like the Great Depression, it had failed in what the 1913 bill tried to enact.[39] This is also the current conventional wisdom on the matter, as both Ben Bernanke and other economists such as the late John Kenneth Galbraith--the latter being an ardent Keynesian--have upheld this reasoning. Friedman also said that ideally he would "prefer to abolish the federal reserve system altogether" rather than try to reform it, because it was a flawed system in the first place.[40] He later said he would like to "abolish the Federal Reserve and replace it with a computer", meaning that it would be a mechanical system in nature that would keep the quantity of money going up at a steady rate. Friedman also believed that, ideally, the issuing power of money should rest with the Government instead of private banks issuing money through fractional reserve lending.[41]
Ben Bernanke agreed that the Fed had made the Great Depression worse, saying in a 2002 speech: "I would like to say to Milton [Friedman] and Anna [J. Schwartz]: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again."[42][43]
Friedman also alleged that the Fed caused the high inflation of the 1970s. When asked about the greatest economic problem of the day, he said the most pressing was how to get rid of the Federal Reserve.[39]
The other argument is that we should be the world's police, yet where does one get this argument and at what leg of logic does it stand on? Ron Paul says we shouldn't be the world police and I agree with him, what gives us the divine authority to be the Police of this earth? Does it say somewhere in the bible that it's our job? (not a Christian, just trying to apply this rational to logic and it isn't working so I thought I'd try faith).
Yes it seems very crazy to me in fact that some here have stated that it isn't 1800 anymore, as if this has anything to do with our foreign policy, we must protect our interests around the world. Our interests? Huhm, is this like we need to go into Iraq to protect "our" oil? Is that what many believe? That somehow foreign resources are entitled to Americans, well because we are America?
Yet here is this loony guy Ron Paul telling society it's wrong. Above all else this is why I love Ron Paul, he recognizes that it's not the individual who is "wrong" it's society. He recognizes that liberty is not about society, it is about the individual. Ron Paul stands up to the world and says you're wrong, that's just ballsy as hell. Ron Paul stands up for the individual who should be free to choose what he or she does regardless of what "society" tells him or her is wrong. Something I tell my wife all the time, facts are mathematical and logical, facts don't become true because a bunch of people say they are.