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Sullivan Endorses Paul

December 17th, 2007 by Steve

Andrew Sullivan was torn between Ron Paul and John McCain and laid out a compelling case to support Ron Paul. He also laid out a strong argument that open-minded but pro-war conservatives should read about Iraq policy:

Because on the critical issue of our time - the great question of the last six years - Paul has been proven right and McCain wrong. And I say that as someone who once passionately supported McCain’s position on the war but who cannot pretend any longer that it makes sense.

Let’s be clear: we have lost this war. We have lost because the initial, central goals of the invasion have all failed: we have not secured WMDS from terrorists because those WMDs did not exist. We have not stymied Islamist terror - at best we have finally stymied some of the terror we helped create. We have not constructed a democratic model for the Middle East - we have instead destroyed a totalitarian government and a phony country, only to create a permanently unstable, fractious, chaotic failed state, where the mere avoidance of genocide is a cause for celebration. We have, moreover, helped solder a new truth in the Arab mind: that democracy means chaos, anarchy, mass-murder, national disintegration and sectarian warfare. And we have also empowered the Iranian regime and made a wider Sunni-Shiite regional war more likely than it was in 2003. Apart from that, Mr Bush, how did you enjoy your presidency?

McCain, for all his many virtues, still doesn’t get this. Paul does.

I’ve read and heard endorsements for years and found Sullivan’s one of the better written ones that I’ve experienced..

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3 Responses to “Sullivan Endorses Paul”

1. paul wrote on 12/17/07 at 5:02 pm :

   Tried to email you back. Bouncing again.

2. Jeff Wartman wrote on 12/17/07 at 5:30 pm :

   And today Joe Lieberman endorsed John McCain.

   It seems the NeoCons still just do not get it.

3. paul wrote on 12/17/07 at 5:35 pm :

   Yes, bouncing to the new address when hitting reply. Sending from hotmail and gmail both just bounced.

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