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Ron Paul Profile in World

There is a generally fair and positive profile of Ron Paul in the evangelical magazine World. Here is a sample: Paul supports international commerce and trade but opposes all wars, unless they are what he considers defensive. He would cut all U.S. governmental aid to Pakistan, to Israel, and to the nations in Africa where […]

There is a generally fair and positive profile of Ron Paul in the evangelical magazine World. Here is a sample:

Paul supports international commerce and trade but opposes all wars, unless they are what he considers defensive. He would cut all U.S. governmental aid to Pakistan, to Israel, and to the nations in Africa where the United States has made big investments in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He argues that Christians in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq, are worse off due to U.S. intervention there: “Christians have lived there since the time of Christ. They survived. And yet the one consequence of this war is that Christians have had to become refugees and actually leave Iraq.”

The withering of Christianity under persecution in Iraq is one of the many adverse consequences of the decision to invade. There was a recent article in Foreign Policy that argued that evangelical skepticism of Arab democracy was informed by sympathy with persecuted Christians in Muslim-majority nations, but something I noticed was missing in this article was any mention of how little evangelical opposition there was to the wars in Iraq and Lebanon that have done so much damage to the Christian communities in both countries. There is now some awareness of the harm that the Iraq war did to the Catholic and Assyrian communities of Iraq, but it is mostly too late.

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