LISA RICHARDS: THE FRIEND OF MY ENEMY IS RON PAUL…
http://lisarichardsusa.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/the-friend-of-my-enemy-is-ron-paul/
As America approaches the tenth anniversary of the worst terror attack on US soil since Pearl Harbor, Congressman Ron Paul is hard at work campaigning for the presidency of Iran.
Ron Paul spent last week fiercely defending Iran as the victim of United States and Israeli aggression. During last week’s Republican Presidential debate in Iowa and his appearances at the Iowa State Fair, Paul asserted that Iran lacks the resources it needs to defend itself against America, Israel, and other nuclear nations. These claims were made despite evidence that Iran already purchases arms from China and nuclear fuel from Russia for the purpose of nuclear capability, which Iran states it intends to use against the world. Regardless, Paul claims “The Iranians are a third world nation. They don’t even have an army or a navy of any sorts, they don’t even have intercontinental ballistic missiles…this is all war propaganda.” Paul further asserted that sanctions placed on Iran go against the Founders belief in trade with other nations, therefore, this besieged Iranian victim should be allowed to build nuclear defenses and America must not provoke an Iranian backlash against our presence in the Middle East,
Ron Paul’s radical libertarian concern for the leading sponsor of international terror makes him nothing more than a dedicated ally to Iran.
In the fashion of all anti-war leftists who disregard the Constitution’s requirements that the Congress must provide for our national defense not destroy it, Ron Paul’s foreign policy beliefs demand that America demilitarize and extend the hand of friendship to an armed enemy that in fact does have an army—the politically powerful and violent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps begun during Islamic Revolution of 1979.
Ten years after 9/11, Ron Paul’s foreign policies and defense of Iran are dangerous because all the signs of Iran’s frantic efforts to create nuclear bombs are most apparent. Yet, Ron Paul is determined to repeat the errors of the leftist 1920’s “peace movement” that promoted the disarmament of America and Great Britain. While America and Great Britain sunk their warships and cut defense spending, Germany and Japan built vast military arsenals that they eventually used to attack a weakened Great Britain and United States.
Ron Paul is advocating the horrendous foreign policies of the past with his insistence that America should befriend and negotiate with a violent enemy. This call for solidarity with Iran ignores Iran’s 2006 threat to “harm and pain” the United States if we try to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Mahmoud Ahmadinedjad later renewed his threats against America at the 2010 UN General Assembly by promising a war that “would know no boundaries.” Ahmadinedjad futher asserted that war is not necessarily about bombs, but, if Iran wants to build a nuclear bomb it will build one. This is an ominous declaration since Ahmadinedjad stated he will use those nuclear weapons to destroy Israel.
Yet none of these threats worries Ron Paul; rather, he defends the enemy.
In the face of Iran’s worrisome and belligerent threats to attack US Military bases in the Middle East, Ron Paul says Iran should have the right to build nuclear weapons, asking: “wouldn’t it be natural if they might [Iran] want a weapon? Internationally they would be given more respect…Why should we [Americans] write people off;” after all, Paul demands, Ronald Reagan talked with the Soviets during the 1980s, so “why would that be so strange if the Soviets and Chinese have nuclear weapons? We tolerated the Soviets, we didn’t attack them, and they were a much greater danger. They [Soviets] were the greatest danger in our history…”
Ron Paul doesn’t lack historical knowledge or facts, nor is he blindsided with ignorance. Instead, he chooses to ignore the truth about Iran’s enmity toward America, which it refers to as the “Great Satan.” Paul defends Iran despite historical lessons that teach about the grave consequences of underestimating our enemies.
Yes, the Soviets were a genuine threat, which is why Reagan called them “the evil empire.” It is also the reason Reagan demanded the “Star Wars” defense shield must accompany missile cuts on both sides. This agreement prevented the Soviets from threatening nuclear war and indulging in nuclear blackmail that would hold America hostage to an endless series of negotiations like Jimmy Carter held in 1979 with Iran for the release of the American hostages. Jimmy Carter proved negotiations with a duplicitous enemy only serve to strengthen that enemy. Carter’s fruitless negotiations with Iranian terrorists enabled the Ayatollah to strengthen Iran’s tyranny. Ever since then, an unchastened Iran has continued from time to time to take Americans hostage while threatening America and Israel and committing horrendous human rights violations.
Ron Paul’s foreign policy philosophy shares the weaknesses of Jimmy Carter’s. On the basis of Paul’s desire to make friends with the Middle East chief supporter of terrorism, Paul would give Iran a free hand to develop nuclear weapons that would enable Iran to threaten all surrounding nations, including Israel. Closing his eyes to the belligerent and venal nature of Iran, Paul fails to see that nuclear capability would enable Iran to become the dominant military force in that region, controlling regional oil wealth vital to the West, not to mention the neutralization of Israel’s defense she depends on to curb the military adventurism of the large Arab military forces surrounding Israel.
Furthermore, Paul discounts Iran’s recent developments in missile technology that enable its nuclear tipped rockets to reach beyond Israel to Europe, and one day soon, to reach American shores. A nuclear Iran is a threat to the US and our allies and Ron Paul wants to make that possible on behalf of his righteous obsession for making a potentially dangerous Iran capable of defending itself against a peaceful America and Israel.
Ignoring reality, Ron Paul further insists this so-called harmless Iran, that prohibits human rights commissions from working inside Iran, poses no threat to others regardless of the lengthy record of human rights violations that include rape, torturing and executing homosexuals, stoning women, floggings, “harsh treatment” of Kurds, coordinated mass murders of thousands by the Iranian Death Commission since 1987, kidnapping foreigners and holding them hostage for political ransom, gunning down Iranians who protest against the government, supplying the Taliban with arms, not to mention the massive terrorist acts of downing civilian airlines, threats to down more flights, and the bombing of Jewish cultural centers abroad.
In the face of massive evidence, as well as Ahmadinedjad’s recent threats, Ron Paul continues to reject any possibility of Iran developing nuclear capability in order to wage war, claiming Iran simply wants to protect itself from the non-existent hostility of America and Israel, nations Iran openly threatens to destroy.
Presidential Candidate Ron Paul should cause concern to all who hold peace dear. He wants to make friends with America and Israel’s enemy Iran and make that terror state nuclear capable so it has the strength to fight America, Israel, and other nations with mass destruction.
A nuclear Iran would place the world in grave danger. The same can be said about the friend of our enemy Ron Paul.
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