Ron Paul: Plans, rumors, and war propaganda for attacking Syria and deposing Assad have been around for many months.
This past week however, it was reported that the Pentagon indeed has finalized plans to do just that. In my opinion, all the evidence to justify this attack is bogus. It is no more credible than the pretext given for the 2003 invasion of Iraq or the 2011 attack on Libya.
The total waste of those wars should cause us to pause before this all-out effort at occupation and regime change is initiated against Syria.
There are no national security concerns that require such a foolish escalation of violence in the Middle East. There should be no doubt that our security interests are best served by completely staying out of the internal strife now raging in Syria.
We are already too much involved in supporting the forces within Syria anxious to overthrow the current government. Without outside interference, the strife—now characterized as a civil war—would likely be non-existent.
Whether or not we attack yet another country, occupying it and setting up a new regime that we hope we can control poses a serious Constitutional question: From where does a president get such authority?
Since World War II the proper authority to go to war has been ignored. It has been replaced by international entities like the United Nations and NATO, or the President himself, while ignoring the Congress. And sadly, the people don’t object.
Our recent presidents explicitly maintain that the authority to go to war is not the U.S. Congress. This has been the case since 1950 when we were taken into war in Korea under UN Resolution and without Congressional approval.
And once again, we are about to engage in military action against Syria and at the same time irresponsibly reactivating the Cold War with Russia. We’re now engaged in a game of “chicken” with Russia which presents a much greater threat to our security than does Syria.
How would we tolerate Russia in Mexico demanding a humanitarian solution to the violence on the U.S.-Mexican border? We would consider that a legitimate concern for us. But, for us to be engaged in Syria, where the Russian have a legal naval base, is equivalent to the Russians being in our backyard in Mexico.
We are hypocritical when we condemn Russian for protecting their neighborhood interests for exactly what we have been doing ourselves, thousands of miles away from our shores. There’s no benefit for us to be picking sides, secretly providing assistance and encouraging civil strife in an effort to effect regime change in Syria.
Falsely charging the Russians with supplying military helicopters to Assad is an unnecessary provocation. Falsely blaming the Assad government for a so-called massacre perpetrated by a violent warring rebel faction is nothing more than war propaganda.
Most knowledgeable people now recognize that the planned war against Syria is merely the next step to take on the Iranian government, something the neo-cons openly admit.
Controlling Iranian oil, just as we have done in Saudi Arabia and are attempting to do in Iraq, is the real goal of the neo-conservatives who have been in charge of our foreign policy for the past couple of decades.
War is inevitable without a significant change in our foreign policy, and soon. Disagreements between our two political parties are minor. Both agree the sequestration of any war funds must be canceled. Neither side wants to abandon our aggressive and growing presence in the Middle East and South Asia.
This crisis building can easily get out of control and become a much bigger war than just another routine occupation and regime change that the American people have grown to accept or ignore.
It’s time the United States tried a policy of diplomacy, seeking peace, trade, and friendship. We must abandon our military effort to promote and secure an American empire.
Besides, we’re broke, we can’t afford it, and worst of all, we’re fulfilling the strategy laid out by Osama bin Laden whose goal had always been to bog us down in the Middle East and bring on our bankruptcy here at home.
It’s time to bring our troops home and establish a non-interventionist foreign policy, which is the only road to peace and prosperity.
This week I am introducing legislation to prohibit the Administration, absent a declaration of war by Congress, from supporting — directly or indirectly — any military or paramilitary operations in Syria. I hope my colleagues will join me in this effort.
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Such a shame that the news will cover and speaks volumes on hermain cain(who is no longer a candidate) and his new webcast, but not on a legitimate candidate, in which most Americans are eager to hear about. Most, because at the very least, everyone I talk to is voting Ron Paul, so how in the fuck do I hear more on a plane crash in France, than a man whom I firmly believe will pull our country out of the gutter.
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The only candidate that speaks like a president…
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Congressman is a great man with great ideas but this minimalist stand on issue of Syria is wrong. Our national interest is best served by stopping mad men like Assad from playing with fire in the area even if we totally ignore the issue of Human Rights in that country.There are times that we MUST intervene and the situation here is totally different from Iraq or Chorea. It is good not to be hawkish regarding our foreign policy but lack of action can sometimes make things worse for us
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Right on someone else who knows the truth and what to do with it. RON PAUL 2012!
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Oh yeah let’s just let them slaughter innocents, let’s allow ourselves to be capitulated by terrorists, with RP you’ll have no ‘bring down this wall’ moments, you’d just get an arbitrary and passive government which watches as the world burns.
Ron Paul and his anti military, sadist supporters make me sick.
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но все таки сомневаюсь что его выберут президентом. Он мешает свем этим олигархам и поджигателем войны, пока вся сила в их руках. И даже если вдруг его выберут, ему будет очень трудно. Желаю ему победы конешно , счастье и терпеный. Хороший человек, естествено таких как он слишком мало в мире.
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What does that say about you? You are an idiot!
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WTF? Based on what? Prove it! site it!
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WTF? Based on what? Prove it! site it!
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West bam, he always is. He makes too much sense which is why the elites hate him. He is telling the people too much truth. They hate that more than anything. Making people think about shit they should be.
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Ron is right on the money, as usual…
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Ron is a warmongering racist. he should be put to death for freedom and democracy. hes so racist and stupit.
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does this guy work for the russian spy agency.
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Back in the year 2000… the UNs plan was to bomb Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, syria, and the Suddan by the year 2015. All because those countries had no Central Bank. So the UN bombed Iraq and Afghanistan so far, and now both of those countries have Central Banks… coincidence?
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U.S is fucked right now but still wants to attack Lybia, now Syria and keep going.
It’s OBVIOUSLY that they will get things from that. Ppl inside the government, fucking money and control somehow.
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Saddam was supported by the U.S until he was not useful anymore. And actually this kind of act is not the first one.
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So many people act like little kids except instead of wanting candy they want war.
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Unfortunately, there is no great judge, nor is there a heaven (or hell).
Also that book you believe so much in, is total rubbish.
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Greeting from the USA. May peace be with Russia and from us good Americans.
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I meant raising taxes lol
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Well yeah I meant for the US, Tax cuts are not the solution because do you know where our taxes go? We live in a corrupt system, we shouldn’t be fighting each other .. We should be uniting and ending the bullshit. Right and Left that’s a bunch of bull we need to see past that and come together
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RON PAUL IS 100% CORRECT ! RON PAUL IS MY PRESIDENT
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It makes me so angry that people discredit this guy because Obama has special T-shirts or Romney does a little sing along. Ron Paul is a hero.
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OH YES IT DOES! How many dead mexicans a year? 30.000? 40.000? how many is enough for it to compare? And nice that you at least realize that you mostly shell civilians like you and me! And permission from the UN is simply permission from a post WW2 panic group (corrupt) UN does not dictate whats right or wrong is in this world. UN may say its ok, but that doesn’t change that its wrong… or declared illegal by allot of nations who sadly have no army…
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lol you’re still trolling the web i see also all im doing is replying back because i know it makes you’re type cry when people don’t let them finish….you’re pathetic who watches videos they don’t like then talks shit afterwards??? TROLLS! >: P
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DAMN SKIPPY! We have no business in Syria. Neither does Israel, UK, France, and Germany. Get the fuck out of their country and take the terrorist you hired with you.
Ron Paul 2012.
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I understand where your coming from but we can’t, Instability is actually good for business like in WWII that created a lot of jobs, we are way too far in debt
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I understand where your coming from but we can’t, Instability is actually good for business like in WWII that created a lot of jobs, we are way too far in debt
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приветствие товарищу спину слова и вниз письма были странные, безумные.
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приветствие товарищу спину слова и вниз письма были странные, безумные.
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We can’t afford to be selfish isolationists either. We CAN afford to help out when it gets bad. We MUST help out when we’ve contributed to the problem if we’re going to claim “personal responsibility” you bots love to crow about. And wtf are we going to trade with if everyone’s at war?? Instability is bad for business.
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Dude we can’t afford to go solve every countries problems
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Ron paul 2012
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That’s fucking BULLSHIT, our drug problem does NOT compare to government shelling civilians you Pro-Assad FUCK. But if they got permission from the UN it would be ok anyway!! This would NOT be unilateral like Iraq was and you fucking KNOW it. Still waiting for any evidence that intervention is based on lies like Iraq was.
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