Now that the defeat of ISIS in Syria appears imminent, with the
Syrian army clearing out some of the last ISIS strongholds in the east,
Washington’s interventionists are searching for new excuses to maintain the
illegal US military presence in the country. Their original rationale for
intervention has long been exposed as another lie.
Remember that President Obama
initially involved the US military in Iraq and Syria to “prevent genocide” of
the Yazidis and promised the operation would not drift into US “boots on the ground.”
That was three years ago and the US military became steadily more involved
while Congress continued to dodge its Constitutional obligations. The US even
built military bases in Syria despite having no permission to do so! Imagine if
Syria started building military bases here in the US against our wishes.
After six years of war the
Syrian government has nearly defeated ISIS and al-Qaeda and the US-backed
“moderates” turned out to be either Islamist extremists or Kurdish soldiers for
hire. According to a recent report, the US has shipped two billion dollars
worth of weapons to fighters in Syria via eastern Europe. Much of these weapons
ended up in the hands of ISIS directly, or indirectly through “moderates”
taking their weapons with them while joining ISIS or al-Qaeda.
“Assad
must go,” proclaimed President Obama back in 2011, as he claimed that the
Syrian leader was committing genocide against his own people and that regime
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year, when eastern Aleppo was
about to be liberated by the Syrian government, the neocons warned that Assad
would move in and kill all the inhabitants. They warned that the population of
eastern Aleppo would flee from the Syrian army. But something very different
happened. According to the UN’s International Organization for Migration,
600,000 refugees returned to Syria by August. Half of the returnees went back
to Aleppo, where we were told Assad was waiting to kill them.
year, when eastern Aleppo was
about to be liberated by the Syrian government, the neocons warned that Assad
would move in and kill all the inhabitants. They warned that the population of
eastern Aleppo would flee from the Syrian army. But something very different
happened. According to the UN’s International Organization for Migration,
600,000 refugees returned to Syria by August. Half of the returnees went back
to Aleppo, where we were told Assad was waiting to kill them.
What happened? The neocons
and “humanitarian interventionists” lied. Just as they lied about Libya, Iraq,
and so on.
While it was mostly ignored
by the mainstream media, just this week a Christian was elected speaker of the
Syrian parliament. The new speaker is a 58-year-old Orthodox Christian law
graduate and member of President Assad’s Baath party.
How
many Christians does our “ally” Saudi Arabia have in its parliament? Oh I
forgot, Saudi Arabia has no elected parliament.
Why does it seem that US
policy in the Middle East always hurts Christians the most? In Iraq, Christians
suffered disproportionately from the 2003 US invasion. In fact there are hardly
any Christians left. Why aren’t more US Christian groups demanding that the US
get out of the Middle East?
The US is not about to leave
on its own. With ISIS all but defeated in Syria, many in Washington are calling
for the US military to continue its illegal occupation of parts of the country
to protect against Iranian influence! Of course before the US military actions
in Iraq and Syria there was far less Iranian influence in the region! So US
foreign interventionism is producing new problems that can only be solved by
more US interventionism? The military industrial complex could not have dreamed
of a better scheme to rob the American people while enriching themselves!
What have we achieved in
Syria? Nothing good.
Dr. Ron Paul is a former member of Congress and Distinguished
Counselor to the Mises Institute.
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