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The Weapons For Everybody Racket

5/12/2017

 
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By Liberty Report Staff

​Yesterday, the topic of The Ron Paul Liberty Report program was "Arming The Kurds - A Dangerous Idea". On the one hand, we have our NATO ally, Turkey, who we're supposed to come to the defense of (unconstitutionally, of course). And on the other hand, there's the Kurds, who have long been seeking autonomy from Turkey. 

President Trump has authorized the Pentagon to begin providing heavy weapons to the Kurds in Syria. But what if the Kurds turn those weapons on our ally Turkey?

Unfortunately, this web of insanity is not new. The U.S. federal government has been arming and supporting both sides of conflicts for many decades.

Here is Ron Paul on the House floor on Oct 14, 1981 addressing this very issue:
“...I believe that it should be a consistent policy for the security of this country that we provide security for this country and not try to be the policeman of the world, providing weapons for everybody.

For instance, in these last several decades, we helped build the trucks that the Russians used to invade Afghanistan. And our Corps of Engineers built the highway in Afghanistan that they marched in on.

We give weapons to Greece, we give weapons to Turkey, and then they get together and fight.

Now we are proposing we give weapons to Pakistan, yet we give aid to India. They are likely to end up in battle, since they are sworn enemies...


We supplied the Shah of Iran with the latest in our weapons in order to shore up his government, but it fell anyway, and those sophisticated weapons and radar installations were possessed by the Khomeini and, if reports are true, shared with some Socialist and Communist governments...

Are we not making a fundamental mistake in thinking that it is weapons that shore up a government? Did we not learn from the example in Iran that it is not weapons but ideas?


...I believe that the American people are sick and tired of supplying, either deliberately or through accident, both sides in the conflicts since World War II.

​We saw this happen in Vietnam. We were shipping both wheat and weapons to the Soviet Union, who, in turn, shipped them to North Vietnam, at the same time that we were shipping wheat and weapons to South Vietnam.”
As long as Americans remain indifferent to this, it will continue on. Those words by Dr. Paul were spoken 36 years ago. 

"Hope & Change" didn't change a thing, and neither has "Make America Great Again."


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