Ron Paul’s Policies: A Threat to America?
Thursday June 13, 2013
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For the neo-con dominated foreign policy establishment, nothing succeeds like failure.
RPI has recently covered the total collapse of Iraq. Then there’s the intervention in Libya, where even Neocon warhawk Max Boot must admit the sorry state of affairs, as he moans:
“...not only is Libya at the mercy of various militias but it is so ungoverned that its distant deserts in the southwest have become a refuge for al-Qaeda fighters fleeing the French offensive in Mali.”Prior to the decision to overthrow Gaddafi, there was little extremism to speak of in Libya. Yet the war machine trudged on, arming militant Islamists (or in, John McCain’s words, “Libyan patriots who want to liberate their nation”), Eventually, after these “patriots” had murdered all the dark-skinned Libyans, they turned their (our) guns against the U.S. in Benghazi.
After meeting with Al Qaeda-aligned rebels in Syria, McCain describes the “moving experience” that he had:
“It was a very moving experience to meet these fighters who have been struggling now for over two years.”
McCain then followed with a plea for more U.S. assistance to the rebels:
“Their message was, to be frank with you: they do not understand,” he said. “They do not understand why we won’t help them.
Jennifer Rubin, one of Washington Post’s neoconservative gate-keepers, is still trying to obfuscate the real issue behind what happened in Benghazi in 2011. Over the weekend, Rubin wrote:
“The biggest scandal regarding Benghazi may be that the president was not at the helm on 9-11-2011 and was not directing the response to an attack.”
Yet, one must look beyond the superficial to locate the heart of what happened in Benghazi.
As Ron Paul pointed out: "there was little extremism in Libya before the US attack on that country in 2011."
Is that not an important piece to the story?
Shortly after the US Secretary of Defense weakly claimed that chemical weapons have been used in Syria, the neocons went directly onto warpath mode. Never mind that no evidence was presented at all to substantiate the claims and the US intelligence community appears to have been blindsided by Secretary Hagel, who was himself blindsided by claims from an Israeli general immediately after he departed the country. Truth has never impeded the neo-cons at all, and they have been pining for war with Syria from the beginning: now there was something tangible that they could sink their teeth into. A gift from Hagel. They saw red – a "red line" to be exact.