Guest Post by Ron Paul
Over the weekend Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin explained to the American people what’s really wrong with US foreign policy. Some might find his conclusions surprising.
The US 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. The problem has nothing to do with neocon lies about Iraq’s WMDs that led untold civilian deaths in another failed “democratization” mission. It’s not because over the past nearly two years Washington has taken more than $150 billion from the American people to fight a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine.
It’s not the military-industrial complex or its massive lobbying power that extends throughout Congress, the think tanks, and the media.
Speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum in California’s Simi Valley, Austin finally explained the real danger to the US global military empire.
It’s us.
According to Secretary Austin, non-interventionists who advocate “an American retreat from responsibility” are the ones destabilizing the world, not endless neocon wars.
Austin said the US 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’s that for reason and logic? 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 US government follows their advice into another catastrophe, it’s always someone else’s fault. In this case, as Austin tells us, those at fault for US foreign policy misadventures are the people who say, “don’t do it.”
What would have happened if the people who said “don’t do it” were in charge of President Obama’s decision to prop-up al-Qaeda to overthrow Syria’s secular leader Assad? How about if the “don’t do it” people were in charge when the neocons manufactured a “human rights” justification to destroy Libya? What if the “don’t do it” people were in charge when Obama’s neocons thought it would be a great idea to overthrow Ukraine’s democratically-elected government?
Would tyrants and terrorists have gained power if Washington did NOT get involved? No. Tyrants and terrorists got the upper hand BECAUSE Washington intervened in these crises.
As Austin further explained, part of the problem with the US is democracy itself. “Our competitors don’t 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 Congress, “America first” foreign policy sentiment is on the rise among conservatives and that infuriates 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,” 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 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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Just another reason to round us up and put us in death camps, I’m sure. Though it might not be such bad thing if they try.
“The Real Problem With Our Foreign Policy…”
The real.problem is We have too many foreigners here.
Actually I think that is a symptom or byproduct of the real problem, which is an oversized govt with way too much power and wealth and almost zero accountability that has grown accustomed to being thus . Its really human nature for the most part . Why didnt we do anything to put the brakes on it ? Because for the most part it was little skin off of our backs ( life , in the material sense was good ), that was how are human nature enabled their human nature , its really all one big moral hazard all the way around to put it in economic terms .
Let’s throw out everyone except indigenous American Indians! 😀
That nigga be a genius.
The US is a criminal organization, impersonating a country. It ‘s government and its people are all criminals.
For the most part yes , literally , according to the US Constitution they are almost all in abrogation to their duties as proscribe in that document . That We have a president who doesn’t take care that “the laws are faithfully executed “nor ” preserve protect or defend the Constitution” should be fairly obvious and yet who has upheld their duties to that same “writ ” that they all swore solemn oaths to uphold by moving to remove such high criminal from said office ? Almost none of them is the answer . I am not a lawyer but the substance of my indictment is airtight and yet where is the judicial branch ? Rotten all the way down unfortunately .
“What a burden it is for him that the people, through their representatives, are in charge of war spending.”
We are? News to me.
We are supposed to be .
We have representatives?
News to me.
The real problem……….dual citizen kikes spreading mayhem for fun and profit.