Ron Paul The Ron Paul Institute September 7, 2015
Last week Europe saw one of its
worst crises in decades. Tens of thousands of migrants entered the European
Union via Hungary, demanding passage to their hoped-for final destination,
Germany.
While the media focuses on the
human tragedy of so many people uprooted and traveling in dangerous
circumstances, there is very little attention given to the events that led them
to leave their countries. Certainly we all feel for the displaced people,
especially the children, but let’s not forget that this is a man-made crisis
and it is a government-made crisis.
The reason so many are fleeing places like Syria, Libya, Afghanistan,
and Iraq is that US and European interventionist foreign policy has left these
countries destabilized with no hopes of economic recovery. This mass migration
from the Middle East and beyond is a direct result of the neo-con foreign
policy of regime change, invasion, and pushing “democracy” at the barrel of a
gun.
Even when they successfully
change the regime, as in Iraq, what is left behind is an almost uninhabitable
country. It reminds me of the saying attributed to a US major in the Vietnam
War, discussing the bombing of Ben Tre: “It became necessary to destroy the
town in order to save it.”
The Europeans share a good deal of blame as well. France and the UK were
enthusiastic supporters of the attack on Libya and they were early backers of
the “Assad must go” policy. Assad may not be a nice guy, but the forces that
have been unleashed to overthrow him seem to be much worse and far more dangerous.
No wonder people are so desperate to leave Syria.
Most of us have seen the heart-breaking
photo of the young Syrian boy lying drowned on a Turkish beach. While the
interventionists are exploiting this tragedy to call for direct US attacks on
the Syrian government, in fact the little boy was from a Kurdish family fleeing
ISIS in Kobane. And as we know there was no ISIS in either Iraq or Syria before
the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.
As often happens when there is
blowback from bad foreign policy, the same people who created the problem think
they have a right to tell us how to fix it – while never admitting their fault
in the first place.
Thus we see the disgraced General
David Petraeus in the news last week offering his solution to the problem in
Syria: make an alliance with al-Qaeda against ISIS! Petraeus was head of the
CIA when the US launched its covert regime-change policy in Syria, and he was
in charge of the “surge” in Iraq that contributed to the creation of al-Qaeda
and ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The idea that the US can salvage its disastrous
Syria policy by making an alliance with al-Qaeda is horrific. Does anyone think
the refugee problem in Syria will not be worse if either al-Qaeda or ISIS takes
over the country?
Here is the real solution to the refugee problem:
stop meddling in the affairs of other countries. Embrace the prosperity that
comes with a peaceful foreign policy, not the poverty that goes with running an
empire. End the Empire!
PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITON AND PASS IT ON,
Can you believe that young, brainwashed
idiots in Germany and Austria (young people suffering from the delusion
that they must feel guilt for WW2! THEY DO NOT!) are actually wecoming them and are
taking these 'refugees' into their own homes to 'look after' them?
How
dangerous is that? SOME OF THEM ARE ISIS AGENTS.
In amongst these hordes are some of the murderers
and mass-murderers who have killed and robbed their Christian, Kurd and
Jew neighbours back in Syria and Iraq. Egged on, no doubt, by their
viscious wives and mothers! AND SOME OF THEM ARE ISIS AGENTS.
No wonder they do not want to go to Hungarian camps to be properly vetted and processed before being allowed into Europe, and are throwing hissy fits and running off up the road. They know they could get caught out by the authorities, arrested & eventually sent back to Assad and the Russians - to be hanged.