New Hampshire State Senator Robert Clegg was recently quoted in the Nashua Telegraph as saying this about Ron Paul: "That guy (Paul) is the most un-American person in this country as far as I’m concerned." Of course Clegg is a Huckabee supporter. And to be a Huckabee supporter you must support perpetual war. Ron Paul, being the extremely intelligent man that he is, opposes the war. And that is why Clegg thinks Ron Paul is "un-American."
So Clegg is an American because he supports the needless deaths of 3,500 soldiers, the wounding of 27,000 more, and the annihilation of over 100,000 Iraqis. Ruining the lives of at least 130,500 people is what passes for good old-fashioned Americanism these days.
I love these choice quotes from the Bosnian conflict dug up by Thomas Woods over at LewRockwell.com:
"Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?"
-- Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."
-- Governor George W. Bush (R-TX)
Justin Raimondo ask the question: Is Huckabee a Nice Guy or Slanderer-by-Proxy?
I would lean toward the latter.
Death and war didn't make us Americans; Peace and prosperity is what made us who we are. Senator Clegg has been good on a lot of issues in New Hampshire, but boy is he wrong on this one.
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One can make plausible arguments against Paul's foreign policy. But Clegg avoids this--too much hard work. Instead he opts for a personal attack against Paul, one that appears flagrant and idiotic in light of Paul's exchange with Huckabee. Huckabee's invocation of a single, monolothic, unified nation making its decisions without dissent was openly fascist. Paul, by contrast, has set himself to recovering the wisdom that informed the guiding leaders in the early American republic. One of these approaches is more American than the other. Can you guess which one?
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