[Peace-discuss] What if the American People learn the truth about war? - Ron Paul

E. Wayne Johnson ewj at pigs.ag
Fri Feb 13 14:50:24 CST 2009


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What If?   
Congressman Ron Paul
 
February 12, 2009   
 
What if we wake up one day and realize that the terrorist threat is a 
predictable consequence of our meddling in the affairs of others?

What if propping up repressive regimes in the Middle East endangers both 
the United States and Israel?

What if occupying countries like Iraq and Afghanistan -- and bombing 
Pakistan -- is directly related to the hatred directed toward us and has 
nothing to do with being free and prosperous?

What if someday it dawns on us that losing over 5,000 American military 
personnel in the Middle East since 9/11 is not a fair trade-off for the 
loss of nearly 3,000 American citizens, no matter how many Iraqi, 
Pakistani, and Afghan people are killed or displaced?

What if we finally decide that torture, even if called "enhanced 
interrogation techniques," is self-destructive and produces no useful 
information -- and that contracting it out to a third world nation is 
just as evil?

What if it is finally realized that war and military spending is always 
destructive to the economy?

What if all wartime spending is paid for through the deceitful and evil 
process of inflating and borrowing?

What if we finally see that wartime conditions always undermine personal 
liberty?

What if conservatives, who preach small government, wake up and realize 
that our interventionist foreign policy provides the greatest incentive 
to expand the government?

What if conservatives understood once again that their only logical 
position is to reject military intervention and managing an empire 
throughout the world?

What if the American people woke up and understood that the official 
reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by 
war propaganda in order to serve special interests?

What if we as a nation came to realize that the quest for empire 
eventually destroys all great nations?

What if Obama has no intention of leaving Iraq?

What if a military draft is being planned for the wars that will spread 
if our foreign policy is not changed?

What if the American people learn the truth: that our foreign policy has 
nothing to do with national security and that it never changes from one 
administration to the next?

What if war and preparation for war is a racket serving the special 
interests?

What if President Obama is completely wrong about Afghanistan and it 
turns out worse than Iraq and Vietnam put together?

What if Christianity actually teaches peace and not preventive wars of 
aggression?

What if diplomacy is found to be superior to bombs and bribes in 
protecting America?

What happens if my concerns are completely unfounded -- nothing!

What happens if my concerns are justified and ignored -- nothing good!


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