Daniel McAdams on Ron Paul's foreign policy

Jeff Deist: Ron Paul was motivated by two things in deciding to run for Congress: foreign policy and monetary policy.  He was able to dovetail those two things.  He understood that interventionism abroad is a cousin of interventionism at home in the economy.

Daniel McAdams: This is something that the neocons and most conservatives never understand.  Those same people believe that six thousand miles away, all of a sudden the government becomes omniscient and omnipotent, there's a huge disconnect and the reason is very simple.  They never have to live with the consequences of the policies that they promote overseas.

~ Daniel McAdams, "All the Trouble in the World," The Austrian, November-December 2021