Freedom4um

Status: Not Logged In; Sign In

Ron Paul
See other Ron Paul Articles

Title: What Did Washington Achieve in Its Six Year War on Syria?
Source: [None]
URL Source: http://original.antiwar.com/paul/20 ... on-achieve-six-year-war-syria/
Published: Oct 3, 2017
Author: Ron Paul
Post Date: 2017-10-03 07:26:53 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 44
Comments: 4

Now that the defeat of ISIS in Syria appears imminent, with the Syrian army clearing out some of the last ISIS strongholds in the east, Washington’s interventionists are searching for new excuses to maintain the illegal US military presence in the country. Their original rationale for intervention has long been exposed as another lie.

Remember that President Obama initially involved the US military in Iraq and Syria to “prevent genocide” of the Yazidis and promised the operation would not drift into US “boots on the ground.” That was three years ago and the US military became steadily more involved while Congress continued to dodge its Constitutional obligations. The US even built military bases in Syria despite having no permission to do so! Imagine if Syria started building military bases here in the US against our wishes.

After six years of war the Syrian government has nearly defeated ISIS and al-Qaeda and the US-backed “moderates” turned out to be either Islamist extremists or Kurdish soldiers for hire. According to a recent report, the US has shipped two billion dollars worth of weapons to fighters in Syria via eastern Europe. Much of these weapons ended up in the hands of ISIS directly, or indirectly through “moderates” taking their weapons with them while joining ISIS or al-Qaeda.

“Assad must go,” proclaimed President Obama back in 2011, as he claimed that the Syrian leader was committing genocide against his own people and that regime change was the only way to save Syrians. Then earlier this year, when eastern Aleppo was about to be liberated by the Syrian government, the neocons warned that Assad would move in and kill all the inhabitants. They warned that the population of eastern Aleppo would flee from the Syrian army. But something very different happened. According to the UN’s International Organization for Migration, 600,000 refugees returned to Syria by August. Half of the returnees went back to Aleppo, where we were told Assad was waiting to kill them.

What happened? The neocons and “humanitarian interventionists” lied. Just as they lied about Libya, Iraq, and so on.

While it was mostly ignored by the mainstream media, just this week a Christian was elected speaker of the Syrian parliament. The new speaker is a 58-year-old Orthodox Christian law graduate and member of President Assad’s Baath party.

How many Christians does our “ally” Saudi Arabia have in its parliament? Oh I forgot, Saudi Arabia has no elected parliament.

Why does it seem that US policy in the Middle East always hurts Christians the most? In Iraq, Christians suffered disproportionately from the 2003 US invasion. In fact there are hardly any Christians left. Why aren’t more US Christian groups demanding that the US get out of the Middle East?

The US is not about to leave on its own. With ISIS all but defeated in Syria, many in Washington are calling for the US military to continue its illegal occupation of parts of the country to protect against Iranian influence! Of course before the US military actions in Iraq and Syria there was far less Iranian influence in the region! So US foreign interventionism is producing new problems that can only be solved by more US interventionism? The military industrial complex could not have dreamed of a better scheme to rob the American people while enriching themselves!

What have we achieved in Syria? Nothing good.

Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.

Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread  


TopPage UpFull ThreadPage DownBottom/Latest

#1. To: Ada (#0)

Several things.

1: Kept corporate profits up

2: Maintained and even created new union job in defense industries.

3: Lowered unemployment by providing job in the military for the uneducated and unskilled.

4: Calmed the fevered brows of Steve and Sara Sixpack by pretending to do something to stop terrorism with purposely allowing it to thrive.

5: Got a LOT of alleged Republians to become butt-hole buds with their Dim counterparts as both had to come together to protect their seats by keeping the money flowing.

I'm sure there are other reasons also,but these were the ones off the top of my head.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.

sneakypete  posted on  2017-10-03   8:32:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: sneakypete (#1)

Anyone that suits up in a uniform in this country should realize that he / she is being taken for a ride.

Policy makers and shakers daily commit a stupefying betrayal of trust.

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded. - James Madison

randge  posted on  2017-10-03   8:53:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: randge (#2)

Policy makers and shakers daily commit a stupefying betrayal of trust.

Henry Kissinger should have been hanged for his brain farts and betrayals during the VN war. Instead he was and is dearly loved and admired by the shitheads in the northeast that think his thick German accent means he is an intellectual. If he had been smart he wouldn't have had the thick accent.

Then again,he was and is clearly smarter than the people who admired him.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.

sneakypete  posted on  2017-10-03   14:07:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: randge (#2)

Doesn't even pay well.

But, you do get to kill "inferior" people.


"Define yourself as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion."—Brennan Manning

Rotara  posted on  2017-10-03   14:29:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


TopPage UpFull ThreadPage DownBottom/Latest