"The disaster of Iran happened partly because of American meddling -- in installing the shah in the first place and then enabling his autocratic rule. Pakistan, too, has suffered over the years from too much U.S. intervention."

This article underscores why Ron Paul's commitment to a foreign policy of non-interventionism appeals to me. (Note: Non-interventionism is different from isolationism for those unfamiliar with the terms). My BYU religious education taught me to take the Book of Mormon seriously and I'm convinced that preemptive war is the moral issue of our day.

Ron Paul is the only Republican even willing to bring the conversation to this level of ideas - but he has still managed to fit ideas like "blowback" and "they've said they want to attack us because we're over there" into the discussion. One of his opponents had apparently not even read the 9/11 Commission Report!

Anyway, thanks for giving this more press, I hope every American can discuss these ideas in every forum of free speech that is still left in this country.