by
Michael Scheuer

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by Michael Scheuer: Interventionists
Ready a Media Lynching for Ron Paul

Two recent
experiences underlined for me what Iowans will vote for next week
in the field of foreign policy if they do not vote for Dr. Ron Paul.
On Christmas day, I heard Chris Wallace’s program on FOX. He had
a guest – Mr. Charles Lane – who made the false and scurrilous claim
that Dr. Paul’s foreign policy was the same as that of the Rev.
Jeremiah Wright’s America-hating policy, a doctrine that appealed
to Barack Obama for more than twenty years and which the president
and his party are now implementing. Following this imbecilic assertion
of Mr. Lane to its logical conclusion, U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen,
and Marines also must be ardent devotees of Rev Wright’s anti-Americanism
as they donate many times more money to Dr. Paul than to all the
other Republican candidates combined.

Then on 26
December, I visited Mount Vernon’s new and extraordinary multi-media
museum documenting the life of George Washington. At the end of
the exhibition there is video of U.S. Senators reading Washington’s
Farewell Address into the record, something they appear to do every
year. When I arrived in front of the video Senator John McCain was
reading Washington’s clear warnings about the dangers of foreign
intervention and the fatal impact of mindlessly favoring one country
over another. To hear this from McCain’s interventionist, war-mongering,
and Israel-is-always-right mouth was sound evidence of his hypocrisy
and deceitfulness, as well as his and his senatorial colleagues’
ignorance of Washington’s ideas and U.S. history generally.

Based on these
two experiences, let us look at what Iowans not voting for Ron Paul
will help to inflict on an America already terribly wounded by the
Republican and Democratic interventionism in the Muslim world.

1.) A foreign
policy that will complete U.S. bankruptcy. While there is a lot
of talk about cutting domestic spending to bring the federal debt
under control, it is obvious that neither party is willing to make
substantial cuts in that area. Indeed, both are counting on drastic
cuts in defense spending to help reduce the federal debt. While
they may agree on and even make defense-spending cuts, any such
reductions will be short-lived and then restored to much more than
current levels. Obama and any Republican save Dr. Paul will continue
to intervene in the Muslim world and so will motivate more Muslims
to fight us. A third-grader could tell you that you cannot cut defense
spending when Washington’s unrelenting interventionism is cultivating
new enemies who are intent on attacking U.S. citizens and interests.
If you are being attacked, our third grader would patiently explain,
you have to spend whatever it takes to defend yourself. And there
is no doubt that we and our vital interests are going to keep being
attacked by Islamists as long as we continue to intervene in their
world.

2.) Obama’s
return or the election of any Republican but Dr. Paul means the
continuation of the State Department’s not-so-secret computer/Facebook/Twitter
proselytizing campaign to incite people to overthrow their governments
in places like Iran, Russia, Tunisia, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Yemen,
and elsewhere. [NB: Three offices of Mrs. Clinton’s elitist democracy/feminism
crusade in Cairo were raided and shut by Egyptian authorities on
28 December 2011 for intervening in Egypt’s domestic affairs.] This
mindless promotion of anarchy alienates the governments targeted
and will motivate them to harm the United States in some manner.
Of no concern to Obama, Mrs. Clinton, and Senators McCain and Graham,
of course, are the thousands of young and naive people who will
die at the hands of the regimes they are instigated to overthrow
by the democracy-pushing federal bureaucrats and their elitist political
masters, all of whom are safe and secure here in North America.
Dr. Paul’s non-interventionist policy will allow foreigners to work
out their political destiny in their own way and at their own pace;
prevent unnecessary additions to America’s growing list of enemies;
and save countless young lives.

3.) All the
Republican contenders and the Obama administration are whole-hearted
believers that the Arab Spring will bring the installation of secular
democracy across that region. This has been and still is a nonsense
that only adolescent idealists – or deliberate liars – could believe,
and one that has been proven fatuous by the fact that Islamists
have won every election held since the start of the Arab Spring.
Neither the Obamaites nor the Republicans will admit they are wrong
on this issue and they will pump billions of dollars in foreign
aid into the Arab-Spring countries in a feckless, Muslim-alienating
effort to build secular democracies and install the crazed feminism
of Mrs. Clinton. Such aid not only will be wasted, but it surely
will cause more Muslims take up arms against America. Indeed, the
continuation of this bipartisan cultural/feminist war on Islam is
likely to start the clash of civilizations Professor Huntington
predicted.

4.) Electing
anyone but Ron Paul will further increase the already strong chances
of widespread Islamist-conducted violence inside the United States.
Any other Republican candidate or a reelected Obama will keep lying
to Americans by claiming that we are being attacked because of our
liberties, gender-equality laws, and elections rather than because
of Washington’s constant intervention in the Islamic world. This
now two-decade-old lie – which is abetted by most of the media –
has hidden from Americans the fact that all of the would-be Islamist
attackers who have been captured in this country were motivated
by the invasion of Iraq, U.S. support for Israel, or some other
U.S. government action in the Muslim world. As Dr. Paul has explained,
our Islamist enemies are motivated by Washington’s bipartisan foreign
policy, and as long as that foreign policy does not change the number
of young, U.S.-citizen Muslim males willing to attack their fellow
citizens will keep increasing. For those who doubt this reality,
a quick look at the recently adopted Defense Appropriations Act
will clear their eyes. That Act’s authorization for the U.S. military
to detain U.S. citizens in the United States is clear evidence that
the leaders of both parties know that their foreign policy is going
to bring war to America’s streets and towns and that the U.S. military
will be called on to fight Islamists militants here at home.

5.) Obama and
any Republican candidate, except for Dr. Paul, will slavishly obey
the U.S.-citizen-dominated, pro-Israel lobby that bribes and suborns
them by getting into a war with Iran. Indeed, Washington, Tel Aviv,
and London are already conducting a lethal, covert-action war inside
Iran which is killing Iranian nuclear scientists and destroying
nuclear-related facilities, as well as trying to goad Tehran into
reacting with violence and thereby give the West a casus belli.
Such a war would be a financial and military disaster for the United
States, and would be watched with glee by Russian and Chinese leaders
who – while their countries would lose some trade with Iran during
a war – would applaud another U.S. self-inflicted would that further
erodes the already failing economy that is the base of American
power. Moreover, if U.S. political leaders would not permit the
U.S. military to defeat Afghan and Iraqi mujahedin armed with Korean
War-vintage weapons, they surely will not allow the military to
defeat a much better armed nation-state like Iran. Thus we would
have yet another politically imposed defeat for the U.S. military.
More painful for Americans will be the Iran-sponsored attacks that
will occur in the United States if Washington and/or Israel launch
a first strike on Iran. The only serious threat Iran poses to the
United States is the result of more than 35 years of near-criminal
bipartisan negligence by the U.S. executive and legislative branches
in the fields of border control and domestic security. Both Iran’s
military and intelligence services and their Lebanese Hizballah
surrogate have created clandestine entry points along our southern
border, as well as a large clandestine infrastructure in the continental
United States, one which works with similar networks in Canada,
Mexico, and the Caribbean. Iran is too smart and fearful of U.S.
military power to use this apparatus to strike first in North America,
but the network clearly is meant to allow Tehran to respond violently
here if Iran is attacked by America and/or Israel.

6.) While all
of the Republican candidates and Obama talk about their plans to
make America energy self-sufficient to the greatest extent possible,
there is no reason to believe any of them. In the past 40 years,
the two parties have made virtually no progress toward this goal,
unless you count moving up Daylight Savings Time by three weeks
as a major gain. Both parties have taken the easy and profitable
route: dependence on oil-rich Arab tyrants, a policy that mandates
that the U.S. military spends billions each year to defend the Arab
Peninsula’s fundamentally anti-U.S. police states. Only Dr. Paul
could be counted on to allow the unfettered development of all domestic
energy resources to promote energy self-sufficiency and allow the
gradual abandonment of our mujahedin- motivating exploitation of
Muslim oil. But even Dr. Paul cannot prevent the United States from
fighting an oil war that the Republicans and Democrats have fixed
on the national agenda, one that America will wage in the Niger
Delta region – from which we will soon get 20-25 percent of our
crude – because of the Islamist insurgency that is gathering steam
in Nigeria and threatening the oil-rich Delta region’s stability.

Notwithstanding
the damnable lies about Dr. Paul’s foreign policy constantly proclaimed
by his fellow Republican candidates, leading pro-Israel/pro-intervention
U.S.-citizens and their journalist friends, and most of the media,
only the gentleman from Texas speaks for the Founder’s non-interventionist
vision of America’s role in world affairs and for plain common sense.
In the Founders’ non-interventionist design for U.S. foreign policy
that is championed by Dr. Paul, Iowans will find a proven road to
the maintenance of America’s sovereignty, independence, peace, and
prosperity. In the realm of common sense, Dr. Paul beats his fellow
candidates, the Obamaites, and the media hands down. Dr. Paul challenges
the interventionists in both parties on their plans for spreading
secular democracy – and causing wars thereby – on historical grounds
that are irrefutable because they are just good commonsense. We,
the British, the Australians, and the Canadians have been building
our republics/democracies since Magna Charta in 1215 – that is for
nearly 800 years – and we are not yet quite perfect. If Iowans and
all Americans truly think about what Dr. Paul is saying – and not
what the interventionists say he is saying – they would respond
favorably to the Texan’s logical conclusion that what we have not
fully accomplished in eight centuries cannot possibly be attained
in Egypt, Afghanistan, or elsewhere in the Muslim world in 6 weeks,
6 months, or six years, not least because none of those places separate
church from state. Dr. Paul’s precise use of history and commonsense
exposes the exorbitantly costly effort to build democracies in the
Islamic world for what it is; namely, Washington throwing money
down the drain for a cause that is impossibly lost from the start
and one that will involve us in wars where we have no interests.

In the words
of Dr. Paul’s Republican opponents, the Obamaites, and most of the
media, on the other hand, Iowans ought to easily be able to hear
the elitist, racist, and war-causing Wilsonian doctrine of intervening
abroad to impose democracy and secular social beliefs on foreigners
at the point of bayonets. Indeed, the national-security policy advocated
by Dr. Paul’s opponents and critics boils down to the clear and
absurd argument that: America needs more and more wars – and
the dead/maimed military personnel attendant thereto – that are
motivated by Washington’s intervention abroad if Americans are to
be safe and secure at home.

For Iowans
and Americans as a whole, then, the best choice for their children,
grandchildren, and country clearly lies in the Founder’s foreign-policy
wisdom and Dr. Paul’s sturdy advocacy and promised application thereof.

December
31, 2011

Michael
Scheuer [send him mail] is
the author of Marching
Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq and Imperial
Hubris and Through
Our Enemies’ Eyes. He recently resigned after 22 years at
the CIA.

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2011© Michael Scheuer

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