Two posts in one day! Craziness I know.
I heard this speech tonight and thought it was a very powerful representation of Ron Paul's foreign policy. I believe it was from early 2008 in congress.
"Madame speaker, I have a few questions for my colleagues. What if our foreign policy of the last century is deeply flawed, and has not served our national security interests? What if we wake up one day and realize that the terrorist threat is a predictable consequence of meddling in the affairs of others, and has nothing to do with us being free and prosperous? What if propping up repressive regimes in the middle east endangers both the United States and Israel? What if occupying countries like Iraq and Afghanistan and bombing Pakistan is directly related to the hate toward us? What if someday it dawns us that losing over 5,000 American military personnel in the middle east since 9-11 is not a fair trade off for the loss of nearly 3,000 American citizens no matter how many Iraqi Pakistani or Afghan people are killed or displaced? What if we finally decide that torture, even if called enhanced interrogation technique, is self destructive and produces no useful information and that contracting it out to a third world nation is just as evil? What if it is finally realized that war and military spending is always destructive to the economy? What if all wartime spending is funded through the deceitful and evil process of inflating and borrowing? What if we finally see that wartime conditions always undermine personal liberty? What if conservatives who preach small government wake up and realize that our interventionist foreign policies provides the greatest incentive to expand the government? What if conservatives understood once again that their only logical position is to reject military intervention and managing an empire throughout the world? What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests? What if we as a nation came to realize that the quest for empire eventually destroys all great nations? What if Obama has no intention of leaving Iraq? What if a military draft is being planned for the wars that will spread if our foreign policy is not changed? What if the American people learned the truth that our foreign policy has nothing to do with national security and it never changed from one administration to the next? What if war and preparation for war is a racket, serving the special interests? What if President Obama is completely wrong about Afghanistan and it turns out worse than Iraq and Vietnam put together? What if Christianity actually teaches peace and not preventive wars of aggression? What if diplomacy is superior to bombs and bribes in protecting America? What happens if my concerns are completely unfounded? Noting. But what happens if my concerns are justified and ignored? Nothing good. And I yield back the balance of my time."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqAF-Alc7CM
Here also is a recent quote from Ron Paul: "
Pretty powerful speech. I'm not sure why people have such a hard time understanding that what
our military is doing is putting us more in danger and more in debt. HR 3166 & SB 1698).
Here are some more videos if you are interested in Ron Paul's ideas and campaign. It might benefit you to know that more veterans have donated to Ron Paul's campaign than to all of the other Republican Candidates combined.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4a__tcfFug
www.youtube.com/watch?v=92OV3RbU3ek
- Erica
"Seek justice, encourage the oppressed.
Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.
'Come now, let us reason together,' says the LORD" Isaiah 1:17-18
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