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Title: The War on Terror is Creating More Terror
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The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity
URL Source: http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/arc ... error-is-creating-more-terror/
Published: Nov 30, 2015
Author: Ron Paul
Post Date: 2015-11-30 16:33:51 by Hondo68
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Keywords: D n R Terror Party, CIA terror factory, 80 percent increase 2014
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The interventionists will do anything to prevent Americans from seeing that their foreign policies are perpetuating terrorism and inspiring others to seek to harm us. The neocons know that when it is understood that blowback is real – that people seek to attack us not because we are good and free but because we bomb and occupy their countries – their stranglehold over foreign policy will begin to slip. Poster Comment: The Party sheeple love their terrorist shuck 'n jive "news" propaganda. Then their psycho attacks lead to an "anti-American" response. Surprise, surprise! We'll keep arming and funding terrorist "democratic rebels", and attacking them, until they love us. /s
That is why each time there is an event like the killings in Paris earlier this month, they rush to the television stations to terrify Americans into agreeing to even more bombing, more occupation, more surveillance at home, and more curtailment of our civil liberties. They tell us we have to do it in order to fight terrorism, but their policies actually increase terrorism.
If that sounds harsh, consider the recently-released 2015 Global Terrorism Index report. The report shows that deaths from terrorism have increased dramatically over the last 15 years – a period coinciding with the “war on terrorism” that was supposed to end terrorism.
According to the latest report: Terrorist activity increased by 80 per cent in 2014 to its highest recorded level. …The number of people who have died from terrorist activity has increased nine-fold since the year 2000.
The world’s two most deadly terrorist organizations, ISIS and Boko Haram, have achieved their prominence as a direct consequence of US interventions.
Former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Michael Flynn was asked last week whether in light of the rise of ISIS he regrets the invasion of Iraq. He replied, “absolutely. …The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq.” He added, “instead of asking why they attacked us, we asked where they came from.”
Flynn is no non-interventionist. But he does make the connection between the US invasion of Iraq and the creation of ISIS and other terrorist organizations, and he at least urges us to consider why they seek to attack us.
Likewise, the rise of Boko Haram in Africa is a direct result of a US intervention. Before the US-led “regime change” in Libya, they just were a poorly-armed gang. Once Gaddafi was overthrown by the US and its NATO allies, leaving the country in chaos, they helped themselves to all the advanced weaponry they could get their hands on. Instead of just a few rifles they found themselves armed with rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns with anti-aircraft visors, advanced explosives, and vehicle-mounted light anti-aircraft artillery. Then they started killing on a massive scale. Now, according to the Global Terrorism Index, Boko Haram has overtaken ISIS as the world’s most deadly terrorist organization.
The interventionists are desperate to draw attention from the fact that their policies contribute to terrorism. After the Paris attacks, neocons like former CIA director James Woolsey actually pinned the blame on NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden! He claimed that because of Snowden’s revelations about NSA surveillance the terrorists were using sophisticated encryption. He even called for Snowden to be hanged because of it. But it was untrue: the Paris attackers did not use encryption, and other groups had used encryption long before the Snowden revelations.
Terrorism is increasing worldwide because of US and western interventionism. That does not mean that if we suddenly followed a policy of non-interventionism the world would become a peaceful utopia. But does anyone really believe that continuing to do what increases terrorism will lead to a decrease in terrorism? 
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
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yes there have been some big mistakes by big egos in the last twenty years and oddly enough most of these people lived in the same house. the idea that a problem can be solved by just killing something is not new but unless you go in for total annilihation it doesn't work in the current environment. Nations are no longer foolish enough to openly attack so they use proxy insurgencies. Daesh and Boko Harum have carved out their desert empires and have had some success. To suggest that Boko Harum is as dangerous as Daesh denies the forces that are arrayed against them and the level of backing. They are muslim insurgencies inside muslim nations or regions and not much above the level of banditary. When the world takes these groups seriously and puts a sizeable force on the ground to combat them they will be defeated, but that force must come from their own people otherwise it becomes an excuse for escalation. Therein lies the problem the muslims don't have the stomach for fighting other muslims and the death cults prevail Why did they attack? Al Qaeda attacked the Unites States because there were american troops in Saudi Arabia a place they considered sacred and defiled by the presence of infidels. However irrational this may appear, undoubtedly there were other issues such as american exploitation of muslim nations and intregue in the affairs of various nations and the singling out of terrorist groups
Its more like damned if you do and damned if you don't. If you don't do something enemies will grow strong and be cancer to the world. If you do no one has the will to do what it takes to win a war which means kill everything in you path including "innocent" people if necessary. You have to make it more miserable for those to harbor our enemies then to fight against them.
There you have it and you don't believe it. You are actually making these enemies, this is the truth you deny. You suggest killing everything in your path but who determines your path is the right path, the shinning path. Does an idiot who can put two words together like George Bush? You fail to understand the impression you make in the world. Only siccophants would follow you. You are neither good and free, you are captive to an ideology that spreads evil in the world
Halfass wars only embolden your enemies. Either kickass or don't fight! Doing what bush did and clinton did and what obama does will only bring strength to our enemies because they realize we have no desire to fight a real war. If you are not willing to kill your enemy then don't fight them because you only hurt you men! Ignoring your enemy is not the answer either. It just allows them to keep building up their ability to destroy you.
You must be a big fan of Obama's drone policy. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much I thinking you either did not read my post or have a reading comprehension problem?
I agree either do it or don't do it, but if you choose the second, don't lament the outcome
“instead of asking why they attacked us, we asked where they came from.”
#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
The interventionists will do anything to prevent Americans from seeing that their foreign policies are perpetuating terrorism and inspiring others to seek to harm us. The neocons know that when it is understood that blowback is real – that people seek to attack us not because we are good and free but because we bomb and occupy their countries – their stranglehold over foreign policy will begin to slip.
#3. To: Justified (#2)
that people seek to attack us not because we are good and free but because we bomb and occupy their countries –
#4. To: paraclete (#3)
#5. To: Justified (#2)
...kill everything in you path including "innocent" people...
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#6. To: Deckard (#5)
#7. To: Justified (#4)
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