
Originally Posted by
The kza
Could you explain why his foreign policy is 'just what we need'
this is another hot button issue with me, i did college reports on this topic, so ill do my best to condense it down while adding substance.
the USA has had a nasty habit of foreign intervention that has caused blowback (unintended consequences) for their actions abroad. Ron Paul believes we should end all foreign aid to all other nations because we cant afford our own debts and we do other countries a disservice by pumping money into their economies. rather than let them and their markets solve their own problems we keep things that should fail afloat with our aid and eventually that aid will end probably because of default.
anyway on to foreign intervention.
in the early 1950s the CIA launched an covert operation codenamed TPAJAX that was designed to oust the democratically elected mohammad mosaddeq and "preserved the Shah's power and protected Western control of a hugely lucrative oil infrastructure."
long story short, the shah was a brutal dictator who regularly violated human rights and the iranians have not forgotten how he got into power.
this is the meddling that we need to end. the wars in iraq and afghanistan are no different. do you even remember what the excuse was to enter iraq? and if bin laden is dead, then why are troops still in afghanistan?
FYI I am a Marine with 2 combat deployments to Afghanistan and received a Purple Heart because of an IED strike.
Here is a little reading you can do from the CIA's own website about their foreign meddling.
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-f...article10.html
Ron Paul's views are as one of our founders put it
"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none." ~ Thomas Jefferson.