Ron Paul Rages: Don’t Blame America, Blame The Neocon Interventionists For The Syrian Catastrophe

Submitted by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,

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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Anonymous
Anonymous

Only a small percentage of the “refugees” flooding Europe are Syrians.

But that entire Middle Eastern thing is actually the result of Obama and the Liberal element of our country supporting and encouraging the “Arab spring” a few years back (remember how joyous they were with it?), this is how it has turned out.

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr

I believe the Elite and their bankster minions run the Western Shadow Governments which promote the dual policies of multiculturalism & wide open borders coupled with the bombing of Israel’s enemies like Iraq, Libya, Syria etc to accomplish several goals 1) decapitate, divide and destroy Israel’s enemies 2) use someone elses’ dollar and blood 3) shift the blame from Israel 4) move their neighbor enemies to a Western country 5) stir up hate in the Western countries of Muslims 6) stir up support of more bombings 7) rinse and repeat on the next Muslim enemy country on the list.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten

The Arab muSSlims have chosen to be Israel’s enemies and for that they will always be losers

Erasmus le Dolt
Erasmus le Dolt

Dr. Paul..it does no good to use the term ‘NEOCON’. Those days are over. Either name names or forget it. It’s like saying ‘GLOBALIST’. Which GLOBALIST? Here’s one..NUMAN AND ANOTHER…KAGAN. Not so difficult is it.

Iconoclast421
Iconoclast421

He makes a valid point, one I hadnt really considered before. You’re not “blaming America” when you point out the fact that Obama left a gaping hole in Iraq to be filled in by ISIS. You’re just blaming Obama. But you somehow ARE “blaming America” when you point out the fact that we should not have been there in the first place? It makes no sense, but that’s how they frame it, and it is tacitly accepted just like so much of our collective political ideology. Just accepted without thought or analysis.

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