Liberty Maven

John McCain attacked Barack Obama today for simply telling the truth. Obama sounded a tad like Ron Paul when he said that Iran doesn’t pose the same kind of threat that the Soviet Union once did.

“Iran, Cuba, Venezuela — these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they were saying, `We’re going to wipe you off the planet.’”

This is decidedly a Ron Paul like statement from Obama and I applaud him for making it. Naturally, John McCain attacked him for it.

A video clip of Obama making the comments was distributed Monday by McCain’s campaign.

McCain listed the dangers he sees from Iran: It provides deadly explosive devices used to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq, sponsors terrorists in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East and is committed to the destruction of Israel.

“The threat the government of Iran poses is anything but tiny,” McCain said.

I’m confused. I thought John McCain was running for President of the United States, not Israel? If we would just bring the troops home from Iraq and declare victory for having ousted Saddam Hussein the Iranians would have no Americans to attack in their backyard. We make it easy for them. We meddled in Iraq and now the repercussions are coming back to bite us. Unless we switch to a Ron Paul style non-interventionist foreign policy the biting will continue.

Every day that goes by cements my disapproval for John McCain. Of course, I’d never vote for Obama because of his socialist economic policies, but the chances of my vote going for McCain are equally nil. Thank gods, there will be a Libertarian candidate on the ballot for me to support. I hope it’s Bob Barr.