The interventionist beast has gotten its hooks into almost all the pundits on both the right and the left. Today's exhibit: Craig McMillan, WorldNetDaily columnist, who complains that Congress in 1936 failed to extend assistance to Georgians who were being murdered by Stalin. McMillan attributes this failure to act to communist sympathy, and I'm sure there's more than a little truth in that (FDR, after all, called Stalin "our old Uncle Joe"). It never even occurs to him that maybe, just maybe, the federal government had no constitutional or practical basis for intervening in a foreign conflict. He criticizes the New Dealers for being "perpetually annoyed that the U.S. Constitution limited federal government power," and rightly so, but then proposes his own version of unlimited government intervention.
Is it any wonder the pundits on both the "left" and the "right" (not that there's much difference anymore) are so dismissive of Ron Paul?
