The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Judge Andrew Napolitano: No New US War in Iraq

Judge Andrew Napolitano: No New US War in Iraq

Written by Adam Dick

Thursday June 19, 2014

Speaking Thursday on Fox News, RPI Advisory Board Member Andrew Napolitano explains that the United States government engaging in another war in Iraq would be contrary to US national interests as was the US invading and making war on Iraq in 2003. That prior Iraq war, Napolitano notes, destabilized Iraq and cost America much in lost lives and money. Napolitano adds that “the American public will not tolerate another war.”

Watch the complete interview here:

The interview begins with a reference to Napolitano’s new editorial regarding the potential of new US military action in Iraq. In the editorial Napolitano concludes the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and ensuing war were counterproductive and recommends that the US take no part whatsoever in the current conflict in Iraq:

America is no safer because of the Iraq war, but we are weaker. Our relationships among the people in the Middle East are far less sanguine, we have planted three generations’ worth of hatred, distrust, and lust for vengeance among Middle Eastern youth, and we have a crushing war debt. We also have American cash and military hardware, including expensive and lethal Stinger missiles, now in the hands of ISIS.

We are witnessing the contemporary incarnation of the old Sunni/Shia/Kurd rivalry that has persisted in what is today called Iraq for 1,000 years, and will persist until the country returns to its pre-modern sectarian borders and each ancient group has its own land.

There is no bona fide American national security interest in jeopardy because of the persistent Iraqi civil war, and we have no lawful right to choose a side and assist it militarily. But the American military-industrial-neocon complex wants more war. We must resist them. We should gather all Americans in Iraq, take what moveable wealth is ours and come home -- and stop searching the world for monsters to destroy, as that will end up destroying us.

Read Napolitano’s complete editorial here.