By Ron Paul
October 15, 2019 "Information
Clearing House" - When President
Trump Tweeted last week that “it is time for us to
get out of these ridiculous endless wars,” adding
that the US would be withdrawing from Syria,
Washington went into a panic. Suddenly Republicans,
Democrats, the media, the think tanks, and the war
industry all discovered and quickly became experts
on “the Kurds,” who we were told were an “ally”
being sent to their slaughter by an ignorant
President Trump.
But it was all just another bipartisan ploy to keep
the “forever war” gravy train rolling through the
Beltway.
Interventionists will do anything to prevent US
troops from ever coming home, and their favorite
tactic is promoting “mission creep.” As President
Trump Tweeted, we were told in 2014 by President
Obama that the US military would go into Syria for
just 30 days to save the Yazidi minority that they
claimed were threatened. Then that mission crept
into “we must fight ISIS” and so the US military
continued to illegally occupy and bomb Syria for
five more years.
Even though it was the Syrian army with its Russian
and Iranian allies that did the bulk of the fighting
against al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria, President Trump
took credit and called for the troops to come home.
But when the military comes home, the
military-industrial-Congressional-media complex
loses its cash cow, so a new rationale had to be
invented.
The latest “mission creep” was that we had to stay
in Syria to save our “allies” the Kurds. All of a
sudden our military presence in Syria was not about
fighting terrorism but rather about putting US
troops between our NATO ally Turkey and our proxy
fighting force, the Kurds. Do they really want us to
believe that it is “pro-American” for our troops to
fight and die refereeing a long-standing dispute
between the Turks and Kurds?
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