Rivals Bash Ron Paul on Foreign Policy

Now that Ron Paul looks like an actual threat to win the Iowa caucuses, his rivals are at last taking shots at him, aiming primarily at what they think is his biggest weakness: foreign policy. “You don’t have to vote for a candidate who will allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth,” Rick Perry said yesterday, without mentioning Paul by name, Politico reports. Rick Santorum has called Paul’s non-interventionist views “scary.”

Mitt Romney struck the same note as Perry. “One of the people running for president thinks it's OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” he said yesterday, according to the LA Times. “I don’t.” Paul has tried to guard against such criticisms by touting his support from veterans—at one event he showed a photo of himself in a military uniform, with the caption, “Ron Paul has raised more funds from active military personnel than all other GOP competitors combined." (More Ron Paul stories.)