Ron Paul Liberty Report - Weekly Update --- Trump’s Disastrous Syria Attack
Aired: 2018-04-17
Duration: 04:47


=== Trump's Syria Misstep (04:14) ===

[00:00:04]  Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report, Trump's Disastrous Syria Attack.
[00:00:12]  Over the weekend, President Trump celebrated firing more than 100 missiles into Syria by tweeting, mission accomplished.
[00:00:21]  They say if you cannot learn from history, you are condemned to repeat it.
[00:00:25]  So I guess we are repeating it.
[00:00:28]  We all remember that mission accomplished was the banner behind then President Bush as he gloated aboard a U.S. Navy ship that the war in Iraq had been won.
[00:00:40]  After his victory, however, some 4,000 U.S. military personnel were killed.
[00:00:46]  Perhaps a million Iraqis were killed.
[00:00:49]  And the country's infrastructure and social fabric were so badly destroyed that they probably can never be repaired.
[00:00:58]  Actually, there is much about the U.S. attack on Syria that reminds us of Iraq.
[00:01:05]  With Iraq, the U.S. moved in to start bombing before international inspectors had completed their mission to verify whether or not Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
[00:01:18]  Had they been allowed to complete their mission and verify that, he did not imagine the suffering, death, and destruction that could have been avoided.
[00:01:29]  In Syria, the U.S. decided to start bombing before the international inspectors were even allowed to start checking claims that Assad gassed his own people in Douma.
[00:01:41]  Why?
[00:01:42]  What was the rush?
[00:01:44]  Was Washington afraid they might not find Assad guilty?
[00:01:49]  Who really benefits from U.S. attacks on the Syrian government?
[00:01:54]  There were reports that ISIS began making moves immediately after the airstrikes.
[00:01:59]  Do we really want to be al-Qaeda and ISIS's air force?
[00:02:04]  Is that going to keep us safe?
[00:02:06]  Remember when al-Qaeda was actually considered our enemy, not an ally in overthrowing the last secular government in the Middle East.
[00:02:17]  Will Syria's Christians be better off after the recent U.S. attack?
[00:02:22]  Just over a week ago, Christians celebrated Easter in Aleppo for the first time in years.
[00:02:28]  What changed?
[00:02:29]  The Syrian army kicked out al-Qaeda, which had been occupying the eastern part of the city.
[00:02:36]  So no, Christians will be much worse off if our modern dictators take control of Syria.
[00:02:45]  If Syria really had sarin and other chemical weapon factories, does it make sense for the U.S. to bomb the buildings and risk killing thousands by widely dispersing the poisons?
[00:02:58]  Does it make sense to risk killing Syrian civilians with chemical weapons in retaliation for allegations that the Syrian government killed civilians with chemical weapons?
[00:03:12]  No, it seems more likely the phony mobile weapons of mass destruction labs we were told that Saddam Hussein had constructed.
[00:03:22]  If the U.S. knew Syria was manufacturing chemical weapons in the buildings they bomb, why not notify the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons?
[00:03:34]  The OPCW had certified the very buildings the U.S. bombed as chemical weapons free not that long ago.
[00:03:42]  Why not just call them up and ask them to check it out?
[00:03:46]  After all, they were just arriving in the country as the U.S. started bombing.
[00:03:52]  There are many more questions about President Trump's terrible decision to again make war on Syria.
[00:03:58]  For example, where is Congress?
[00:04:00]  It was disgraceful to see Speaker Paul Ryan telling the president he needs no congressional authorization to attack Syria.
[00:04:09]  All members of Congress take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, and the Constitution says that only Congress can declare war.

=== Oath Betrayed (00:28) ===

[00:04:18]  Does that oath mean nothing these days?
[00:04:22]  President Trump will come to regret the day he let the neocons take over his foreign policy.
[00:04:29]  Their track record is abysmal.
[00:04:31]  His attacks on Syria was clearly illegal, and should his party lose the House in November, he may find his new fair-weathered friends in the Democratic Party quickly turning foul.
[00:04:45]  Thanks for listening.