Ron Paul Liberty Report - Weekly Update --- Why Are We Siding With Al-Qaeda?
Aired: 2018-09-10
Duration: 04:20


=== Why We Aid Al-Qaeda (03:48) ===

[00:00:04]  Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report.
[00:00:08]  Why are we siding with al-Qaeda?
[00:00:12]  Last week I urged the Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to stop protecting al-Qaeda in Syria by demanding that the Syrian government leave Idlib under al-Qaeda control.
[00:00:26]  While it may seem hard to believe that the U.S. government is helping al-Qaeda in Syria, it's not as strange as it may seem.
[00:00:34]  Our interventionist foreign policy increasingly requires Washington to partner up with bad guys in pursuit of its dangerous and aggressive foreign policy goals.
[00:00:46]  Does the Trump administration actually support al-Qaeda and ISIS?
[00:00:52]  Of course not.
[00:00:54]  But the experts who run Trump's foreign policy have determined that a de facto alliance with these two extremist groups is for the time being necessary to facilitate the more long-term goals in the Middle East.
[00:01:09]  And what are those goals?
[00:01:11]  Regime change for Iran.
[00:01:14]  Let's have a look at the areas where the U.S. is turning a blind eye to al-Qaeda and ISIS.
[00:01:24]  First, Idlib.
[00:01:26]  As I mentioned last week, President Trump's own special envoy to fight ISIS said just last year that Idlib province is the largest al-Qaeda safe haven since 9-11.
[00:01:38]  So why do so many U.S. officials, including President Trump himself, keep warning the Syrian government not to retake its own territory from al-Qaeda control?
[00:01:49]  Wouldn't they be doing us a favor by ridding the area of al-Qaeda?
[00:01:54]  Well, if Idlib is retaken by Assad, it all but ends the neocon and Saudi and Israeli dream of regime change for Syria and a black eye to Syria's ally, Iran.
[00:02:09]  Second, one of the last groups of ISIS fighters in Syria are around the Al-Tamf U.S. military base, which has operated illegally in northeastern Syria for the past two years.
[00:02:23]  Last week, according to press reports, the Russians warned the U.S. military in the region that it was about to launch an assault on ISIS fighters around the U.S. base.
[00:02:35]  The U.S. responded by sending in 100 more U.S. Marines and conducting a live-fire exercise as a warning.
[00:02:43]  President Trump recently reversed himself again and announced that the U.S. would remain at Al-Tamf indefinitely.
[00:02:52]  Why?
[00:02:53]  It is considered a strategic point from which to attack Iran.
[00:02:58]  The U.S. means to stay there even if it means turning a blind eye to ISIS in the neighborhood.
[00:03:06]  Finally, in Yemen, the U.S.-Saudi coalition fighting the Houthis has been found by AP and other mainstream media outlet to be directly benefiting al-Qaeda.
[00:03:19]  Why help al-Qaeda in Yemen?
[00:03:21]  Because the real U.S. goal is regime change in Iran, and Yemen is considered one of the fronts in the battle against Iranian influence in the Middle East.
[00:03:31]  So we are aiding al-Qaeda, which did attack us, because we want to regime change Iran, which hasn't attacked us.
[00:03:39]  How does that make sense?
[00:03:42]  We all remember the old saying attributed to Benjamin Franklin's Poole Richards Almanac that if you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.

=== Winning Means Alliances with Enemies? (00:27) ===

[00:03:52]  The experts would like us to think they are pursuing a brilliant foreign policy that will provide a great victory for America at the end of the day.
[00:04:02]  But as usual, the experts have got it wrong.
[00:04:05]  It's really not that complicated when winning means you're allied with al-Qaeda and ISIS, you're doing something wrong.
[00:04:14]  Let's start doing foreign policy right.
[00:04:17]  Let's leave the rest of the world alone.