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Title: Blame America? No, Blame Neocons!
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The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity
URL Source: http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archive ... lame-america-no-blame-neocons/
Published: Sep 20, 2015
Author: Ron Paul
Post Date: 2015-09-20 20:26:08 by Hondo68
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Keywords: bad US policy, Military Industrial Complex
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Is the current refugee crisis gripping the European Union “all America’s fault”? That is how my critique of US foreign policy was characterized in a recent interview on the Fox Business Channel. I do not blame the host for making this claim, but I think it is important to clarify the point.
It has become common to discount any criticism of US foreign policy as “blaming America first.” It is a convenient way of avoiding a real discussion. If aggressive US policy in the Middle East – for example in Iraq – results in the creation of terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda in Iraq, is pointing out the unintended consequences of bad policy blaming America? Is it “blaming America” to point out that blowback – like we saw on 9/11 – can be the result of unwise US foreign policy actions like stationing US troops in Saudi Arabia?
In the Fox interview I pointed out that the current refugee crisis is largely caused by bad US foreign policy actions. The US government decides on regime change for a particular country – in this case, Syria – destabilizes the government, causes social chaos, and destroys the economy, and we are supposed to be surprised that so many people are desperate to leave? Is pointing this out blaming America, or is it blaming that part of the US government that makes such foolish policies?
Accusing those who criticize US foreign policy of “blaming America” is pretty selective, however. Such accusations are never leveled at those who criticize a US pullback. For example, most neocons argue that the current crisis in Iraq is all Obama’s fault for pulling US troops out of the country. Are they “blaming America first” for the mess? No one ever says that. Just like they never explain why the troops were removed from Iraq: the US demanded complete immunity for troops and contractors and the Iraqi government refused.
Iraq was not a stable country when the US withdrew its troops anyway. As soon as the US stopped paying the Sunnis not to attack the Iraqi government, they started attacking the Iraqi government. Why? Because the US attack on Iraq led to a government that was closely allied to Iran and the Sunnis could not live with that! It was not the US withdrawal from Iraq that created the current instability but the invasion. The same is true with US regime change policy toward Syria. How many Syrians were streaming out of Syria before US support for Islamist rebels there made the country unlivable? Is pointing out this consequence of bad US policy also blaming America first?
Last year I was asked by another Fox program whether I was not “blaming America” when I criticized the increasingly confrontational US stand toward Russia. Here’s how I put it then:
I don't blame America. I am America, you are America. I don't blame you. I blame bad policy. I blame the interventionists. I blame the neoconservatives who preach this stuff, who believe in it like a religion -- that they have to promote American goodness even if you have to bomb and kill people.
In short, I don’t blame America; I blame neocons.
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#3. To: hondo68 (#0)
Who do you think elected those neocons? Dipshit. Then again, Ronny, I don't expect you to understand. You think like your rabid cult following. They say... In short, I don't blame politicians for drug laws; I blame the cops.
blame politicians for drug laws You, misterwhite, A K A Stone, Hillary, John F'n Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and the neotard nation. You voted for the D&R drug cartel. You get your cut of drug sales in your check. Sales profits would drop, if drugs were just another market commodity, so you oppose liberty in favor of drug profits.
In your dreams. The price of legal medical marijuana is the same as illegal recreational marijuana. But I guess you're saying that what this country needs is yet another legal recreational drug at a price so low even 12-year- olds can afford it.
That's nowhere near being a free market commodity. It's the government interference, taxes, regulations, and nanny state crap, that keep prices high. It's the same with the whole over-regulated, overtaxed, and over nannied US economy. Get the hell out of the way and let America prosper, control freak! End the FED, abolish the IRS!
That's as much a free market commodity as it's going to get, bucko. Why should your commodity be exempt from government interference, taxes, regulations, and nanny state crap? You got your legal "medical" marijuana. Go smoke some for your "pain" and leave the rest of us alone.
Why should your commodity be exempt from government interference. leave the rest of us alone. I don't do drugs or alcohol. I'm pro liberty, not pro drugs. No exemption was requested, buzz off across the board since everything is over-regulated to death by tyrannical gov aholes. You've done wonders for the Chinese economy, now move there! Buzz off! Chicom Republican totalitarians
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestIn short, I don't blame America; I blame neocons.
#4. To: GrandIsland, America last, globalist neocon voters, misterwhite, A K A Stone, Gatlin, GOP zombies, *The Two Parties ARE the Same* (#3)
Who do you think elected those neocons?
#5. To: hondo68 (#4)
"Sales profits would drop, if drugs were just another market commodity"
#6. To: misterwhite, nanny, fascist government Keynesian economics (#5)
The price of legal medical marijuana is the same as illegal recreational marijuana.
#14. To: hondo68 (#6)
"That's nowhere near being a free market commodity. It's the government interference, taxes, regulations, and nanny state crap, that keep prices high."
#15. To: misterwhite, chicom totalitarians, Globalist tools, neocons (#14)
Go smoke some
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