Patriot,

The neocons in Washington are cheering for the fall of the Assad
government in Syria, but as I warn in my latest column, nothing
good will come of this.

As I note in the column (read it below), the so-called "rebels"
are actually a direct organizational descendant of al-Qaeda, the
perpetrators of the September 11 attacks.

We've seen what American meddling in these countries has done,
and we have no reason to expect the outcome in Syria to be any
different than in Iraq or Libya.

When President Trump is sworn in, expect the neocons in
Washington to continue to agitate for senseless Middle East
meddling.

Let's help Trump resist them.

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Ron Paul


What Are We Doing in Syria?

My first reaction to news earlier this month that the Syrian
government had been overthrown was, how much did we have to do
with it; how involved was the CIA; and how much is it going to
cost.

As with Saddam and Gaddafi before him, we know that Assad was no
libertarian hero. But unleashing an army dedicated to
establishing an Islamic state in once-secular Syria hardly seems
like a good idea to me.

As with President George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" moment
after Saddam's overthrow, getting rid of Assad will prove to be
the easy part. Rebuilding Syrian society after the destruction of
the country will cost billions and will likely be about as
successful as our "liberation" of Libya, which is still a failed,
terrorist-dominated state more than a decade later.

In 2017 the Los Angeles Times published an article that, sadly,
speaks volumes about the insanity of our interventionist foreign
policy. "In Syria, militants armed by the Pentagon fight those
armed by the CIA," read the headline. How does it make any sense
that the Pentagon is fighting a proxy war with the CIA on Syrian
soil? What's worse is that the American people are forced to pay
for this Pentagon versus CIA war and then forced to pay again to
rebuild the country after all the destruction.

The Syrian people will feel the cost in more than just dollars.

How involved is the US government in the overthrow of the Syrian
government? For the past ten years, the US has controlled the
areas of Syrian oil and wheat production, stealing resources that
we have no legal claim on.

The combination of resource theft and extreme sanctions hollowed
out Syrian society over the past ten years, so when the
terrorists sprang forth from Idlib a few weeks ago there was
little resistance.

Now instead of the relatively benign yet authoritarian rule of
Assad, we have rule by the direct inheritors of the people who
attacked us on 9/11. I am shocked that the mainstream media and
many if not most politicians are cheering this. Ironically, some
of the biggest cheerleaders for the al-Qaeda takeover of Syria
are the same Members of Congress who finished their daily
speeches on the House Floor with "we will never forget 9/11." I
guess they finally forgot?

The implosion of Syria, like the US-engineered implosion of Libya
and Iraq, has not led to democracy, peace, and the protection of
civil liberties. In each case, it has produced the exact
opposite. Millions dead, millions more living in misery with many
seeking revenge against those who destroyed their families, their
lifestyle, and their countries. Are we safer having created
millions of new enemies?

President-elect Donald Trump made a statement last week about
Syria, saying that this is not our fight and we should have
nothing to do with it. His sentiment is the correct one, though
we have unfortunately to this point had far too much to do with
it.

Let us hope that as president, Donald Trump will follow through
with this sentiment and extract the US - the overt and covert
presence - from not only Syria but the entire Middle East. This
is not our fight and every single thing we have done there for
the past 75 or so years has only made things worse. Time for an
America first foreign policy!
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