Who Should Pay For the Syrian Refugees?

 Guest Post by Ron Paul

undefinedLast week the US House dealt a blow to President Obama’s plan to resettle 10,000 Syrians fleeing their war-torn homeland. On a vote of 289-137, including 47 Democrats, the House voted to require the FBI to closely vet any applicant from Syria and to guarantee that none of them pose a threat to the US. Effectively this will shut down the program.

The House legislation was brought to the Floor after last week’s attacks in Paris that left more than 120 people dead, and for which ISIS claimed responsibility. With the year-long US bombing campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, there is a good deal of concern that among those 10,000 to be settled here there might be some who wish to do us harm. Even though it looks as though the Paris attackers were all EU citizens, polling in the US shows record opposition to allowing Syrian refugees entry.

I agree that we must be very careful about who is permitted to enter the United States, but I object to the president’s plan for a very different reason. I think it is a sign of Washington’s moral and intellectual bankruptcy that US citizens are being forced to pay for those fleeing Washington’s foreign policy.

For the past ten years the US government has been planning and executing a regime change operation against the Syrian government. It is this policy that has produced the chaos in Syria, including the rise of ISIS and al-Qaeda in the country. After a decade of US destabilization efforts, we are now told that Syria is totally destabilized and we therefore must take in thousands of Syrians fleeing the destabilization that Washington caused.

Has there ever been a more foolish and wrong-headed foreign policy than this?

The American people have been forced to pay untold millions for a ten-year CIA and Pentagon program to undermine and overthrow the Syrian government, and now we are supposed to pay millions more to provide welfare for the refugees Obama created.

Who should pay for the millions fleeing the chaos that Washington helped create? How about the military-industrial complex, which makes a killing promoting killing? How about the Beltway neocon think-tanks that continue to churn out pro-war propaganda while receiving huge grants from defense contractors? How about President Obama’s national security advisors, who push him into one regime change disaster after another? How about Hillary Clinton, who came up with the bright idea that “Assad must go”? How about President Obama himself, a president elected to end wars, but who has ended up starting more wars than his predecessor? It’s time those who start the wars start paying for the disasters they create. Then perhaps we might have some relief from an interventionist foreign policy that is destroying our financial and national security.

If Obama wants to take in refugees from the chaos in Syria, there are probably plenty of vacant rooms in the White House.

 

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Ghost

It doesn’t matter who SHOULD pay for any of this collectivist crap. We all know who is gonna pay.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Take a quick look in the mirror this a.m.

That will answer most questions about government actions that begin with “Who will ………….”

Dutchman
Dutchman

It’s so nice that the politicians are so free with OUR money. My what a humanitarian that HNIC.

So these people arrive: speak little or no English, can’t read our alphabet, have little education, don’t understand first world. So they will be totally dependent. They will need medical, dental, housing, food, interpreters, social workers, transportation, education. We will have to provide all of this.

I figure it will cost at least $100,000 a year, for at least 10 years per towel head family. That’s a millon dollars per family – just to ‘get them going’.

All the while we keep increasing our national debt. This IS insanity.

Dutchman
Dutchman

The 50,000 Somali’s – here in Minneapolis – we give them EVERYTHING.

I know an optician. He says they get free glasses – up to two pair a year. Understand everything is free.

I figure if they get $100,000 / yr in goods and services – it must cost another $100,000 in government infrastructure to pay for these benefits.

Ghost

@Dutchman, you are probably on the low side. But, yes… the person in the mirror is paying in many, many ways.

B
B

How many readers have called their Representatives DEMANDING that they put an end to the insanity of our meddling in the Middle East. If you have not, then you should shut up. It is YOUR duty as a citizen to let them know how you feel. It does make a difference

Dutchman
Dutchman

@B: It makes no difference. We have put Republicans in charge of the House & Senate – and still they have done nothing. Both parties the same – just ‘bought off’ for different reasons.

KaD
KaD

No one-they shouldn’t be allowed here. Most of the fake ‘refugees’ aren’t even Syrian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BDqzmG-rH8

These people have NOTHING to offer America.

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