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Mr. PAUL.
Last week it
was Saddam Hussein and the Iraqis. This week’s Hitler is Slobodon
Milosevic and the Serbs. Next week,
who knows? Kim Chong-il and the
North Koreans? Next year, who will it
be, the Ayatollah and the Iranians? Every week we must find a foreign infidel
to slay; and, of course, keep the
military-industrial complex humming.
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Once our ally, Saddam Hussein, with
encouragement from us, invaded Iran. Was it not logical that he might believe we condone border crossings and invasions even into what Iraqis believe is
rightfully theirs, Kuwait, especially
after getting tacit approval from
U.S. Ambassador Glaspie?
1998 Ron Paul 25:5
Last week U.S. Special Envoy to the
Balkans Robert Gelbard, while visiting
Belgrade, praised Milosevic for his cooperation
in Bosnia and called the separatists
in Kosovo “without question a
terrorist group.” So how should we expect
a national government to treat its
terrorists?
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Likewise, our Secretary of State in
1991 gave a signal to Milosevic by saying,
“All Yugoslavia should remain a
monolithic state.” What followed was
to be expected: Serb oppression of the
Croats and the Muslims.
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All our wise counsel so freely given
to so many in this region fails to recognize
that the country of Yugoslavia
was an artificial country created by
the Soviet masters, just as the borders
of most Middle Eastern countries were
concocted by the British and U.N. resolutions.
1998 Ron Paul 25:8
The centuries-old ethnic rivalries inherent
in this region, and aggravated
by persistent Western influence as far
back as the Crusades, will never be resolved
by arbitrary threats and use of
force from the United States or the
United Nations. All that is being accomplished
is to further alienate the
factions, festering hate and pushing
the region into a war of which we need
no part.
1998 Ron Paul 25:9
Planning any military involvement
in Kosovo is senseless. Our security is
not threatened, and no one has the foggiest
notion of whether Kofi Annan or
Bill Clinton is in charge of our foreign
policy. The two certainly do not speak
in unison on Iraq.
1998 Ron Paul 25:10
But we cannot maintain two loyalties,
one to a world government under
the United Nations and the other to
U.S. sovereignty protected by an American
Congress. If we try, only chaos can
result and we’re moving rapidly in
that direction.
1998 Ron Paul 25:11
Instead of bringing our troops home
from Bosnia, as many Members of Congress
have expressed an interest in
doing, over the President’s objection,
we’re rapidly preparing for sending
more troops into Kosovo. This obsession
with worldwide military occupation
by U.S. troops is occurring at the
very time our troops lack adequate
training and preparation.
1998 Ron Paul 25:12
This is not a result of too little
money by a misdirected role for our
military, a role that contradicts the
policy of neutrality, friendship, trade
and nonintervention in the affairs of
other nations. The question we should
ask is: are we entitled to, wealthy
enough, or even wise enough to assume
the role of world policemen and protector
of the world’s natural resources?
1998 Ron Paul 25:13
Under the Constitution, there is no
such authority. Under rules of morality,
we have no authority to force others
to behave as we believe they
should, and force American citizens to
pay for it not only with dollars, but
with life and limb as well. And by the
rules of common sense, the role of
world policemen is a dangerous game
and not worth playing.
1998 Ron Paul 25:15
may help bring warring factions to the
peace table, but never with threats of
war or bribes paid for by the American
taxpayer. We should stop sending
money and weapons to all factions. Too
often our support finds its way into the
hands of both warring factions and we
never know how long it will be for our
friends and ally of today to become
our enemy and target of tomorrow.
1998 Ron Paul 25:16
Concern for American security is a
proper and necessary function of the
U.S. Congress. The current policy, and
one pursued for decades, threatens our
security, drains our wallets, and worst
of all, threatens the lives of young
Americans willing to stand tall for Americans’
defense, but not for Kofi Annan’s
United Nations.
1998 Ron Paul Chapter 25
While CongressionalRecord quotes Ron Paul as saying Kosova thrice in this chapter, he is clearly heard saying Kosovo in the C-Span video.
1998 Ron Paul 25:10 This is not a result of too little money by a misdirected role for our military
probably should be, This is not a result of too little money but a misdirected role for our military.
