Ron Paul is the only major presidential candidate who opposes America’s wars. What does that say about us as a nation?

Ron Paul is the only major presidential candidate who opposes America’s wars. What does that say about us as a nation?
There is a long tradition of portraying the victims of U.S. wars as warlike in order to justify war against them.
One simply simply cannot be taken Seriously unless one is a war-monger.(updated)
The perverse notion that an utterly destroyed country must pay reparations to the parties who maliciously planned and facilitated its destruction is the grim reality today for the people of Iraq.