The Real Problem With Our Foreign Policy..By Ron Paul!
(2023-12-05 at 22:40:45 )

The Real Problem With Our Foreign Policy..By Ron Paul!

Over the weekend Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin explained to the United States of American people what is really wrong with United States foreign policy. Some might find his conclusions surprising.

The United States standing in the world is damaged not because we spent 20 years fighting an Afghan government that had nothing to do with the attacks on 9-11-01.

The problem has nothing to do with neocon lies about Iraqs WMDs that led untold civilian deaths in another failed "democratization" mission.

It is not because over the past nearly two years Washington,D.C. has taken more than $150 billion from the United States of American people to fight a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine.

It is not the military-industrial complex or its massive lobbying power that extends throughout the United States Congress, the think tanks, and the media.

Speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Californias Simi Valley, Mr. Austin finally explained the real danger to the United States global military empire.

It is us!!

According to Secretary Austin, non-interventionists who advocate "an American retreat from responsibility" are the ones destabilizing the world, not endless neocon wars.

Mr. Austin said the United States must continue to play the role of global military hegemon - policeman of the world - because "the world will only become more dangerous if tyrants and terrorists believe that they can get away with wholesale aggression and mass slaughter."

How is that for reason and logic??

Mr. Austin and the interventionist elites have fact-checked 30 years of foreign policy failures and concluded, "well it would have been far worse if the non-interventionists were in charge."

This is one of the biggest problems with the neocons!!

They are incapable of self-reflection!!

Each time the United States government follows their advice into another catastrophe, it is always someone elses fault!!

In this case, as Mr. Austin tells us, those at fault for United States foreign policy misadventures are the people who say, "do not do it."

What would have happened if the people who said "do not do it" were in charge of President Obamas decision to prop-up al-Qaeda to overthrow Syrias secular leader Assad??

How about if the "do not do it" people were in charge when the neocons manufactured a "human rights" justification to destroy Libya??

What if the "do not do it" people were in charge when President Obamas neocons thought it would be a great idea to overthrow Ukraines democratically-elected government??

Would tyrants and terrorists have gained power if Washington,D.C. did NOT get involved??

No. Tyrants and terrorists got the upper hand BECAUSE Washington,D.C. intervened in these crises.

As Mr. Austin further explained, part of the problem with the United States is democracy itself!!

"Our competitors do not have to operate under continuing resolutions," he complained. What a burden it is for him that the people, through their representatives, are in charge of war spending!!

In the United States Congress, "America first" foreign policy sentiment is on the rise among conservatives and that infuriates Mr. Austin and his ilk. He wants more billions for wars in Ukraine and Israel and he wants it now!!!

And our economic problems??

That is our fault too!!

Those who "try to pull up the drawbridge," Mr. Austin said, undermine the security that has led to decades of prosperity.

Prosperity??

Has he looked at the national debt??

Inflation??

Destruction of the dollar??

There is a silver lining here!!

The fact that Mr. Austin and the neocons are attacking us non-interventionists means that we are gaining ground!!

They are worried about us!!

This is our chance to really raise our voices!!

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