Posted on 12/31/2009 4:21:45 AM PST by rabscuttle385
the Republican and Democratic parties are headed for the dustbin of history
Like treating a cut on your finger with a flamethrower. No thanks.
In a rational world, we would not be interventionist, but we would get revenge.
And THAT is where the public support for the actions in Iraq and Afghanistan came from.
The truth is that "Revenge" is what Americans really wanted after 9/11 -- -- to strike back and not feel helpless. But Americans are so geographically challenged that it became "Iraq, Afghanistan", same difference, it's all over there". It's NOT "the same difference".
Afghanistan, yes. They gave safe harbor to those who attacked us. We needed to take out al Qaeda there and there is evidence that it wouldn't have taken all that much to do so had we used the right strategy and not been distracted by Iraq.
But if someone took a step back for long enough to realize what's happened, they'd see that it was Saudi Arabia that needed (and still needs) removed from the face of the map. Saudis are playing both ends against the middle -- publicly befriending us to take our money, meanwhile sponsoring terrorism against us and other non-Muslim peoples around the world. If we took out Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Pakistan would ultimately become completely irrelevant. But the Saudis were protected by the longstanding friendship with the Bush family. And I wouldn't be surprised at all if it was Saudi Arabia that was the prime motivator and financial sponsor for the Iraq war.
Attacking Afghanistan was rational. But nothing else in our Middle East strategy (if there is one) for the last 20 years has been rational. It's probably irrational to us because we don't see all the strings being pulled and pockets being stuffed behind the scenes.
War is unfortunately sometimes necessary to defend yourself, but the point is to fight wars that you are going to get some relief/benefit from, not to make it a way of life that drains you, your people and your resources and leaves you with nothing -- even if you win.
So, having said all of that, I still agree that a RP non-interventionist policy should be our ideal, where we only go to war to defend ourselves and defend our direct interests.
But instead, we've empowered a globalist cabal who are determined to remake the world in their own image using our country, manpower and resources to do it for them --FOR THEM, not for us. Their strategy is that they reap the benefits and we wind up broke and disheartened, dependent on them for everything.
I, for one, don't want to play their game.
When, precisely, have we seen it tried in order to evaluate that "track record"?
did I miss the sarcasm tag?
When have we seen it work? Its very similar to the enemy who want us to go back to the 700s.
“I have yet to hear how he’d take the fight to al-Qaeda.
did I miss the sarcasm tag?”
Thats because Dr Paul WON’T take the fight to the enemy. He’d pull pull all the troops back to the US and hope someone didn’t come for us.
Afraid so. Ron Paul threads are the gifts that just keep on giving.
All that’s missing are some photos of the screwball.
Not in your life time.
Left up to Paul, America would have taken no action after 9-11 because it was our fault. He is scum!
Ron Paul and his PaulBots believe we were attacked because we are occupiers “Imperial America” as Paul said.
CAluvdubya, don’t they remind you of the Code Pinkos wer countered for weeks and weeks. They have the same Neo Left talking points
Paul bots should be ashamed of themselves for supporting an America apologizer. We already have that with the current admin.
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