If this blog does only one thing – convince you to read this speech by Congressman Ron Paul of Texas, no less - I will feel that I’ve really done something good for our world. I may not agree with many of the ideas he advocates on his web site, but I certainly agree with those expressed in this speech, “Who’s Better Off?
He asks some key questions:
Do the ends justify the means?
How much better off are the Iraqi people?
Why is it that what is good for the goose isn’t always good for the gander?
Are Christian Iraqis better off today?
Are the American people better off because of the Iraq war?
And tells some home truths:
In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.
Yet the election was held under martial law implemented by a foreign power, mirroring conditions we rightfully condemned as a farce when carried out in the old Soviet system.
Today it’s easier to get funding to rebuild infrastructure in Iraq than to build a bridge in the United States.
Because of the war, fewer dollars are available for real national security and defense of this country.
The real irony is that we are told we go hither and yon to fight for freedom and our Constitution, while carelessly sacrificing the very freedoms here at home we’re supposed to be fighting for.
We have lost our way by rejecting the beliefs that made our country great (my emphasis).
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