Supporting Ron Paul & Supporting Israel are Mutually Exclusive

Yes that's what I said. The two don't go together, anymore than conservatism goes with liberalism, common sense goes with Keith Olbermann, and Hillary Clinton goes with...eh, we won't even go there. (Insert Rush Limbaugh's age joke about Hillary here)

Now you might say, come on, how bad can he be? I'll show you how bad.

For starters, he wants to cut off all aid to Israel. He also wants to entirely get out of the Middle East, even though that will leave the place in abject disarray.

He also apparently has problems with calling Hamas a terrorist organization, and he went so far as to deplore Israel's 2009 Gaza offensive and our verbal support of it.

Citing that the 3,000 rockets fired into Israeli territory were just "a few small missiles", he condemned the House resolution that expressed strong backing for Israel in its invasion of the strip. So not only does he have a problem with us helping Israel, he even opposes us saying anything derogatory about terrorists!!

In other words, he agrees with Cynthia McKinney, but I digress.

His brilliant plan for the Middle East is this:

We should abandon our ally Israel, the only stable, western democracy in the Middle East to its power-hungry Muslim neighbors, and if Paul has his way, a nuclear armed Iran. Never mind that said country's leadership has already claimed that they want to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. That's the other part of Paul's stance that is pathetic. Not only does he oppose helping Israel in any way whatsoever, he sees no problem with Iran having nukes. His skewed logic is that if we possess nukes, so can the Iranians! If we have it, we shouldn't stop the terrorists from having them either! After all, they need them to defend themselves against us evil westerners.

Never mind that it may lead to a nuclear war that could destroy the Middle East. Never mind that thousands of Israelis and millions of Iranians may die. Never mind that Iran might decide to give those nukes to Al Queda to use on our cities. If we hide behind our borders, they'll never attack us if as long as we leave them alone and let them do what they want unopposed!

This reminds me of a poem written by a pastor in World War II. I've modified the wording just a little.

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
Then they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
I did not protest;I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Israelis,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Israeli.
When they came for me(the Americans),
there was no one left to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)

Be silent if you want. Let evil march around the world unopposed while you hide behind your borders afraid that even speaking against it might offend them. See what it gets you.

I won't be.