The only person who would apologize more than Obama would be a president Ron Paul.
(CNN) — Rep. Ron Paul, who has long espoused a non-interventionist foreign policy, said Sunday that President Barack Obama’s apology for the burning of qurans in Afghanistan was indicative of a larger problem with America’s foreign policy.
Paul described Republicans who condemned Obama for apologizing for the burning as “a little over the top,” saying the very act of invading Afghanistan was deserving of an apology from the American president.
“I’m personally more apologetic for invading countries who never did anything to us and occupying it, disrupting it, causing thousands of deaths of our own people and causing hundreds of thousands of refugees,” Paul said. “This is the thing that I feel sad about, what about the pictures of torture? Weren’t they every bit as bad? I mean this is what incites the hatred.”
As for Iran, Paul said the United States should follow the pattern of the Cold War.
“You know, it doesn’t make any sense to bomb a country that is no threat to anybody just because they might get a weapon,” Paul said. “Containment worked pretty well with the Soviets, and they were rather ruthless people, killing millions and millions of their own people, and we stood them down in the Cold War. So I’d try to calm it down a little bit, but, quite frankly, I don’t think we should tell Israel what they should do or shouldn’t do.”