Ron Paul’s 9/11 Insanity: Why Ron Paul Is the Jeremiah Wright of the Right
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Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) is surging in the polls, but that doesn’t prevent Zo from telling you why he isn’t supporting this Texas congressman’s presidential bid. Hear more.
One minor quibble: we at 1389 Blog believe that rescinding Roe v. Wade and giving control over abortion back to the States would be a good step toward rolling back abortion throughout the US. That said, Ron Paul doesn’t seem to want to alienate his libertarian (or perhaps libertine) base by unequivocally coming out against abortion.
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For anti-jihadists, it’s worth noting that 13 years ago — before 9/11 — there was only one lone voice in Congress who spoke out against us supporting an Osama bin Laden backed KLA (Muslim Albanians) against Christian Serbs in the 1999 NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia — and that lone voice was Ron Paul’s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3l7PQd4pz8
Bin Laden’s success (with US help) in the Balkans then emboldened him to strike the US two years later on 9/11, and in fact, two of the 9/11 Islamist hijackers had served on our side in the Balkan wars. Then in 2007, some years later four Muslim Kosovo Albanians we supported along with two others, attempted to strike American soldiers on American soil at Fort Dix, NJ –AKA the Fort Dix Six.
Ron Paul may not be as anti-Islam as many anti-jihadists would like. But unlike most in Congress, including John McCain who was all on-board for bombing Serbs into submission, Ron Paul was not fool enough to support bin Laden and Islamists in Kosovo and Bosnia, either. Ron Paul also had the foresight then to see that We the People lose power over our country’s entrance into wars, when we ignore the US Constitution and allow a president to act like a King by bypassing Congress and outsourcing the decision of when and where to go to war to NATO. Had we listened to Ron Paul in 1999 and demanded that any US President get Congressional approval for a Declaration of War, we likely wouldn’t have had to deal with a President Obama completely ignoring Congress to declare war on Libya years later.
Ron Paul has one and only foreign policy — follow the US Constitution — use it or lose it. It’s not personal, but it is logical. Because in the long run it won’t matter who “we beat”, if we lose our own identity as a country and our freedom in the process. And I know we lost a piece of our soul as a country back in 1999, and have been dealing with the consequences ever since.
@M. Pejakovich
I can remember Ron Paul’s stance against the Kosovo War very well. He seemed like the only voice of reason in the Congress at the time. However, do we see Ron Paul reaching out to the Serbian community today? During the debates or media interviews, does he ever bring up the fact that we were on the wrong side of the Kosovo War?
Perhaps future historians will look back at the United States and wonder what happened to a group of peoples, united under one government, who were the first to put a man on the moon, and wonder: How did such a great empire fall?
Perhaps some future historian will look back at the spring of 1999 and declare it to be the time when America lost its soul. Yes, lost its soul so much so, that even the one voice of reason during the Kosovo War refused some thirteen years later to acknowledge that it was not that the war was so wrong, but that we had actually fought on the wrong side.
Challenge to Ron Paul: Support the Serbs again and renounce radical Islam.
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