Dear Patriot,

Watching as the U.S. experienced another
"Saigon moment," this time in Afghanistan over the weekend, it's
hard to not look at how things could have turned out very
differently.

After a 20-year war that drained trillions
from Americans' pockets -- not to mention the thousands who lost
their lives and countless others who are permanently injured --
the capital of Afghanistan fell without a fight.

The corrupt Potemkin regime the U.S. had been
propping up for two decades and the Afghan military we had spent
billions training just melted away.

The rush is on now to find somebody to blame
for the chaos in Afghanistan. Many of the "experts" doing the
finger-pointing are the ones most to blame.

The authorization for use of military force
(AUMF) that Congress granted in order to invade Afghanistan to
take out those who were harboring Osama Bin Laden has been used
as the justification for this war to continue for nearly 20
years.

But that justification expired at least 10
years ago when it was announced that Bin Laden had been killed in
neighboring Pakistan.

The last ten years of the war were under
Presidents Obama, Trump, and now Biden.

Politicians and pundits who played
cheerleader for this war for two decades are now rushing to blame
President Biden for finally getting the U.S. out. Where were they
when succeeding presidents continued to add troops and expand the
mission in Afghanistan?

The U.S. war on Afghanistan was not lost
yesterday in Kabul. It was lost the moment it shifted from a
limited mission to apprehend those who planned the attacks on
9/11 to an exercise in regime change and nation-building.

Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, I
proposed that we issue letters of marque and reprisal to bring
those responsible to justice. But such a limited and targeted
response to the attack was ridiculed at the time. How could the
U.S. war machine and all its allied profiteers make their
billions if we didn't put on a massive war?

So who is to blame for the scenes from
Afghanistan this weekend? There is plenty to go around.

Congress has kicked the can down the road for
20 years, continuing to fund the Afghan war long after even they
understood there was no point to the U.S. occupation. There were
some efforts by some members to end the war, but most (on a
bipartisan basis) just went along to get along.

Generals and other high-ranking military
officers lied to their commander-in-chief and to the American
people for years about progress in Afghanistan. The same is true
for the U.S. intelligence agencies.

Unless there is a major purge of those who
lied and misled, we can count on these disasters to continue
until the last U.S. dollar goes up in smoke.

The military industrial complex spent 20
years on the gravy train with the Afghanistan war. They built
missiles, they built tanks, they built aircraft and helicopters.


They hired armies of lobbyists and think tank
writers to continue the lie that was making them rich. They
wrapped their graft up in the American flag, but they are the
opposite of patriots.

The mainstream media has uncritically
repeated the propaganda about Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and all
the other pointless U.S. interventions. Many of these outlets
are owned by defense industry-connected companies. The corruption
is deep.

Until more Americans rise up and demand a
pro-America, non-interventionist foreign policy, they will
continue to get fleeced by war profiteers.

And what a shame it has been to let this
continue for so long without a large enough political movement to
stop it.

It has cost us more than $2 Trillion, the
lives of thousands, and much more damage than can truly be added
up in the form of broken families, long-term physical
disabilities, and PTSD, which likely afflicts a lot more veterans
than is understood.

Now there will be a transition in Afghanistan
that the U.S. will have no control over, which is the fate of a
foreign intervention that lasted too long, cost too much, and
lost the mission over a decade ago.

Political control in Afghanistan has returned
to the people who fought against those they viewed as occupiers
and for what they viewed as their homeland. That is the real
lesson, but don't expect it to be understood in Washington.

War is too profitable and political leaders
are too cowardly to go against the tide.

But the lesson is clear for anyone wishing to
see it: the U.S. global military empire is a grave threat to the
United States and its future.

For Liberty,

Ron Paul
Chairman

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can continue to advance the cause and spread the message of peace
with renewed hope that we can avoid these future tragic foreign
policy mistakes.

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