By JenkoAtaman @Adobe Stock
In his letter, Tom Woods responds to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s foreign warmongering in Ukraine by remembering a speech given by Bill Kauffman at Ron Paul’s “Rally for the Republic” in 2008. He writes:
In 2008, during the week that the execrable John McCain was to be officially nominated for president at that year’s Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, Ron Paul held his Rally for the Republic at the Target Center in Minneapolis, the other of the Twin Cities. Speaking to those many thousands of people was one of the great moments of my life.
In preparation for that event Dr. Paul called and said: I want a good antiwar speaker. Do you have any suggestions?
I replied: Bill Kauffman, without a doubt.
Bill, one of the few writers whose prose I genuinely envy, wound up giving the best speech of the day.
I thought of it today as I contemplated Senator Graham’s priorities.
Bill went for the jugular in his attack on the military-industrial complex and the fake conservatives who betray every one of their stated principles — fiscal conservatism, small government, family values — in order to support it.
“The only foreign policy compatible with healthy family life,” said Bill, “is one of peace and nonintervention.”
Bill then spoke words that resonate with all normal people everywhere, describing his “love for my own place, the little postage stamp of ground on which I and my neighbors and family live, a piece of the world which means nothing to the empire, but means everything to me.”
“You can’t have a healthy home and a worldwide empire,” continued Bill. “They can’t coexist. You can’t care about Baghdad and your own backyard.
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