By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
A few days ago, Ginny Garner sent me a message. Ginny wrote:
âLew,
We know Biden is not a man of peace. This week Trump did not tell the Nevada Caucus rally audience he opposed sending billions for the war in Ukraine, instead he said European nations should contribute more. And, after a long pause, RFK Jr. when questioned by comedian/podcaster Dave Smith said he didnât know if he was concerned about Israelâs influence over American foreign policy. So much for RFK Jr. being the antiwar candidate. It looks like anyone wanting to vote for an authentic pro-peace presidential candidate is going to have to write in the name of Ron Paul.â
Dr. Ron Paul is our greatest living American, and he is sound on all issues. None of the other candidates is sound on all issues. You might object, âIt would be great if Ron would runâbut he wonât! The answer to that is simple. We have to draft him!
I spoke about being sound on all issues, and the most important of these issues is the one Ginny mentionedâbeing anti-war. Ron has been clear that the neocon gang who control brain-dead Biden have always been trying to get us into war. Here is what he said about them last December:
âOver the weekend Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin explained to the American people whatâs 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 Iraqâs WMDs that led untold civilian deaths in another failed âdemocratizationâ mission. Itâs 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.
Itâs 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 Californiaâs Simi Valley, Austin finally explained the real danger to the US global military empire.
Itâs us.
According to Secretary Austin, non-interventionists who advocate âan American retreat from responsibilityâ are the ones destabilizing the world, not endless neocon wars.
Austin said the US must continue to play the role of global military hegemon â policeman of the world â because âthe world will only become more dangerous if tyrants and terrorists believe that they can get away with wholesale aggression and mass slaughter.â
Howâs that for reason and logic? Austin and the interventionist elites have fact-checked 30 years of foreign policy failures and concluded, âwell it would have been far worse if the non-interventionists were in charge.â
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, itâs always someone elseâs fault. In this case, as Austin tells us, those at fault for US foreign policy misadventures are the people who say, âdonât do it.â
What would have happened if the people who said âdonât do itâ were in charge of President Obamaâs decision to prop-up al-Qaeda to overthrow Syriaâs secular leader Assad? How about if the âdonât do itâ people were in charge when the neocons manufactured a âhuman rightsâ justification to destroy Libya? What if the âdonât do itâ people were in charge when Obamaâs neocons thought it would be a great idea to overthrow Ukraineâs 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. âOur competitors donât have to operate under continuing resolutions,â he complained. What a burden it is for him that the people, through their representatives, are in charge of war spending.
In Congress, âAmerica firstâ 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 âtry to pull up the drawbridge,â 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! See this.
Ron doesnât think we should spend massive sums of money and ship arms to Israel in order to fight against Hamas. Doing this will make things worse in the Middle East and will intensify our financial problems at home. Here is Ronâs comment:
âThose who called Hamasâs attack on Israel âIsraelâs 9/11â were more accurate than they realized. Just as the US reacted to 9/11 by fulfilling Osama bin Ladenâs wish that the US would get bogged down in no-win wars, Israelâs reaction to the Hamas attack fulfills Hamasâs likely goal of radicalizing more Palestinians. The result of Hamasâs attack will be to strengthen the most extreme elements on both sides of the conflict.
Given the strong support for Israel among both major political parties it is not surprising that, following the attacks, many politicians rushed to microphones to proclaim their support for US assistance for Israel. President Biden announced the US would send military aid to Israel, while Congress is drafting legislation providing about two billion dollars in âemergencyâ military assistance to Israel. Even most of the growing number of representatives who oppose military aid to Ukraine will support spending âwhatever it takesâ to defend Israel. This is why the Biden administration and some in Congress want to combine aid for Israel and Ukraine into one legislative package…
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