• Home
  • News
    • Politics & Government
    • Business & Economy
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
  • Sports
    • High School Sports
    • Radio Iowa Poll
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support Page
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters

Radio Iowa

Iowa's Radio News Network

You are here: Home / News / Paul suggesting using “a little bit of diplomacy”

Paul suggesting using “a little bit of diplomacy”

December 22, 2011 By O. Kay Henderson

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is attempting to cement his status as a top-tier candidate with another trip through Iowa, just before Christmas.

The latest polls in Iowa have Paul either leading or in a dead heat with Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. Before a crowd of more than 250 in Dubuque earlier today, Paul answered critics of his foreign policy views.

“Isolationism is when you put up trade barriers and you put on sanctions. The people who make the charges toward me that I’m an isolationist are the ones who always want to put sanctions on countries and stir up trouble and they’re the ones who don’t even want to open up conversations with Cuba,” Paul said, drawing applause when he added: “I think it’s time that we traded (with) and traveled to Cuba. There’s nothing wrong with that.”

Paul advocates eliminating all foreign aid and closing overseas military bases, and he promises to expand U.S. diplomatic efforts around the globe.

“If you suggest that we talk to a country that might not even have a weapon, that can’t even hardly feed their people and arguing they’re going to attack us pretty soon, I mean there’s something wrong,” Paul said in Dubuque. “There’s something wrong with the advice of at least talking to people. We have 12,000 diplomats in our government. I sugguest we start using our diplomats and do a little bit of diplomacy once in a while.”

On Wednesday, Paul walked out of a CNN interview after being asked questions about newsletters sent out under his name in the 1990s, some of which had racist content. Paul has said he did not write or read the letters and he told CNN he has “disavowed” them. One newsletter, from the early ’90s, suggested rioting in Los Angeles had ended when it was time “for blacks to pick up their welfare checks.”

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: News, Politics / Govt Tagged With: Iowa Caucuses, Republican Party

Featured Stories

Governor signs child care expansion into law

Iowa seniors have until July 1 to apply for new property tax break

Smoke from distant fires creates colorful sunrise in Iowa

DOT’s Motor Vehicle Enforcement Division to merge into State Patrol

Iowa’s governor approves liability limits for trucking industry

TwitterFacebook
Tweets by RadioIowa

Radio Iowa/Baseball Coaches Association High School Poll 5/29/23

Iowa AD Gary Barta announces retirement

Iowa to visit Creighton in Gavitt Tipoff Games

Iowa and Indiana collide Thursday at B1G baseball tournament

Former Hawkeye joins Lisa Bluder’s staff at Iowa

More Sports

Archives

Copyright © 2023 · Learfield News & Ag, LLC