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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
The War That's Not a War - Ron Paul
By Ron Paul - Published 07/05/10
Statement of Congressman Ron Paul
United States House of Representatives
The War That's Not a War
In January 1991, we went to war in the Middle East against Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s dictator who was our ally during the Iran-Iraq war. A border dispute between Kuwait and Iraq broke out after our State Department gave a green light for Hussein’s invasion.
After Iraq’s successful invasion of Kuwait we reacted with gusto and have been militarily involved in the entire region, six thousand miles from our shores, ever since. This has included Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. After twenty years of killing and a couple trillion dollars wasted, not only does the fighting continue with no end in sight, but our leaders threaten to spread our bombs of benevolence on Iran.
For most Americans, we are at war -- at war against a tactic called terrorism, not a country.
This allows our military to go any place in the world without limits as to time or place.
But how can we be at war? Congress has not declared war as required by the Constitution.
That is true, but our presidents have and Congress and the people have not objected. Congress obediently provides all the money requested for the "war."
People are dying, bombs are dropped, our soldiers are shot at and killed.
Our soldiers wear uniforms; our enemies do not. They are not part of any government. They have no planes, no tanks, no ships, no missiles, and no modern technology.
What kind of a war is this anyway? If it really is one. If it was a real war we would have won it by now.
Our stated goal since 9/11 has been to destroy al Qaeda. Was al Qaeda in Iraq? Not under Saddam Hussein. Our leaders lied us into invading Iraq and deceived us into occupying Afghanistan.
There’s still really no al Qaeda in Iraq and only a hundred or so in Afghanistan, yet there is no end in sight to the "war." Could there have been other reasons for this war that is not a war?
Military victory in Afghanistan is illusive. Does anyone really know whom we are fighting and why?
Why has the war not ended? Nine years and it continues to spread. Some claim it is to keep America safe, that our soldiers are fighting and dying for our freedom, defending our Constitution. Are we being lied to in order to keep us in this spreading war, just as we were lied to in the 1960’s to keep us in Vietnam?
We own the Iraq government as we do Afghanistan’s. In Afghanistan we are fighting the Taliban-those dangerous people with guns, defending their homeland.
Once they were called the Mujahideen, our old allies, along with Osama bin Laden, in the fight to oust the Soviets from Afghanistan in the 1980’s.
In that effort our CIA funded radical jihad against those nasty foreign occupiers-the Russians.
What gratitude? Those same people now resent our benevolent occupation-with a little violence thrown in.
The resistance to our presence grows as our perseverance wanes.
Our people are waking up but our officials refuse to recognize the longer we stay the greater is the support for those dedicated to the principle that Afghanistan is for Afghans, who resent all foreign occupation.
The harder we fight a war that is not a war, the weaker we get and the stronger becomes our enemy.
When an enemy without weapons can resist an army of great strength, the most powerful of all history, one should ask, who has the moral high ground?
Military failure in Afghanistan is to be our destiny. Changing generals without changing our policies or our policy makers perpetuates our agony and delays the inevitable.
This is not a war that our generals have been trained for. Nation building, police work, social engineering is never a job for foreign occupiers and never an appropriate job for soldiers trained to win wars.
A military victory is no longer even a stated goal of our military leaders or our politicians, as they know that type of victory is impossible.
The sad story is:
This war is against ourselves, our values, our Constitution, our financial well being and common sense, and at the rate we are going, it is going to end badly. What we need are honest leaders with character and a new foreign policy.
Statement of Congressman Ron Paul
United States House of Representatives
The War That's Not a War
In January 1991, we went to war in the Middle East against Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s dictator who was our ally during the Iran-Iraq war. A border dispute between Kuwait and Iraq broke out after our State Department gave a green light for Hussein’s invasion.
After Iraq’s successful invasion of Kuwait we reacted with gusto and have been militarily involved in the entire region, six thousand miles from our shores, ever since. This has included Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. After twenty years of killing and a couple trillion dollars wasted, not only does the fighting continue with no end in sight, but our leaders threaten to spread our bombs of benevolence on Iran.
For most Americans, we are at war -- at war against a tactic called terrorism, not a country.
This allows our military to go any place in the world without limits as to time or place.
But how can we be at war? Congress has not declared war as required by the Constitution.
That is true, but our presidents have and Congress and the people have not objected. Congress obediently provides all the money requested for the "war."
People are dying, bombs are dropped, our soldiers are shot at and killed.
Our soldiers wear uniforms; our enemies do not. They are not part of any government. They have no planes, no tanks, no ships, no missiles, and no modern technology.
What kind of a war is this anyway? If it really is one. If it was a real war we would have won it by now.
Our stated goal since 9/11 has been to destroy al Qaeda. Was al Qaeda in Iraq? Not under Saddam Hussein. Our leaders lied us into invading Iraq and deceived us into occupying Afghanistan.
There’s still really no al Qaeda in Iraq and only a hundred or so in Afghanistan, yet there is no end in sight to the "war." Could there have been other reasons for this war that is not a war?
Military victory in Afghanistan is illusive. Does anyone really know whom we are fighting and why?
Why has the war not ended? Nine years and it continues to spread. Some claim it is to keep America safe, that our soldiers are fighting and dying for our freedom, defending our Constitution. Are we being lied to in order to keep us in this spreading war, just as we were lied to in the 1960’s to keep us in Vietnam?
We own the Iraq government as we do Afghanistan’s. In Afghanistan we are fighting the Taliban-those dangerous people with guns, defending their homeland.
Once they were called the Mujahideen, our old allies, along with Osama bin Laden, in the fight to oust the Soviets from Afghanistan in the 1980’s.
In that effort our CIA funded radical jihad against those nasty foreign occupiers-the Russians.
What gratitude? Those same people now resent our benevolent occupation-with a little violence thrown in.
The resistance to our presence grows as our perseverance wanes.
Our people are waking up but our officials refuse to recognize the longer we stay the greater is the support for those dedicated to the principle that Afghanistan is for Afghans, who resent all foreign occupation.
The harder we fight a war that is not a war, the weaker we get and the stronger becomes our enemy.
When an enemy without weapons can resist an army of great strength, the most powerful of all history, one should ask, who has the moral high ground?
Military failure in Afghanistan is to be our destiny. Changing generals without changing our policies or our policy makers perpetuates our agony and delays the inevitable.
This is not a war that our generals have been trained for. Nation building, police work, social engineering is never a job for foreign occupiers and never an appropriate job for soldiers trained to win wars.
A military victory is no longer even a stated goal of our military leaders or our politicians, as they know that type of victory is impossible.
The sad story is:
This war is against ourselves, our values, our Constitution, our financial well being and common sense, and at the rate we are going, it is going to end badly. What we need are honest leaders with character and a new foreign policy.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
The Military Can Waste Money Too - Ron Paul
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 – by Dr. Ron Paul
This past week various news events once again made it abundantly clear that our foreign policy is an abject failure. Unfortunately, in spite of this the administration is determined to stay on this destructive course, despite any past promises to change it. For Afghanistan especially, if ever there was an opportunity to admit shortcomings and change strategies along with leaders, this past week was it.
There really is nothing for us to win in Afghanistan. Our mission has morphed from apprehending those who attacked us, to apprehending those who threaten or dislike us for invading their country, to remaking an entire political system and even a culture. I remain highly skeptical that, as foreign occupiers, we can ever impose western-style democracy on another country. Our troops have debilitating restrictions on defending themselves against enemies, which are so often indistinguishable from civilians. They also face dire setbacks in winning hearts and minds when innocents are mistakenly harmed, which happens all the time. We can never make friends this way; the tactic never works.
This is an expensive, bloody, endless exercise in futility.
Read more: http://www.thedailybell.com/1173/Ron-Paul-The-Military-Can-Waste-Money-Too.html
This past week various news events once again made it abundantly clear that our foreign policy is an abject failure. Unfortunately, in spite of this the administration is determined to stay on this destructive course, despite any past promises to change it. For Afghanistan especially, if ever there was an opportunity to admit shortcomings and change strategies along with leaders, this past week was it.
There really is nothing for us to win in Afghanistan. Our mission has morphed from apprehending those who attacked us, to apprehending those who threaten or dislike us for invading their country, to remaking an entire political system and even a culture. I remain highly skeptical that, as foreign occupiers, we can ever impose western-style democracy on another country. Our troops have debilitating restrictions on defending themselves against enemies, which are so often indistinguishable from civilians. They also face dire setbacks in winning hearts and minds when innocents are mistakenly harmed, which happens all the time. We can never make friends this way; the tactic never works.
This is an expensive, bloody, endless exercise in futility.
Read more: http://www.thedailybell.com/1173/Ron-Paul-The-Military-Can-Waste-Money-Too.html
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