Posted on 03/17/2025 10:40:46 AM PDT by RandFan
Over the weekend President Trump ordered a massive military operation against the small country of Yemen. Was Yemen in the process of attacking the United States? No. Did the President in that case go to Congress and seek a declaration of war against the country? No. The fact is, Yemen hadn’t even threatened the United States before the bombs started falling.
Last year, candidate Trump strongly criticized the Biden Administration’s obsession with foreign interventionism to the detriment of our problems at home. In an interview at the Libertarian National Convention, he criticized Biden’s warmongering to podcaster Tim Pool, saying, “You can solve problems over a telephone. Instead they start dropping bombs. Recently, they’re dropping bombs all over Yemen. You don’t have to do that.”
Yet once in office, Trump turned to military force as his first option. Since the Israel/Hamas ceasefire plan negotiated by President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, Yemen has left Red Sea shipping alone. However, after Israel implemented a total blockade of humanitarian relief to citizens of Gaza last week, Houthi leaders threatened to again begin blocking Israel’s Red Sea shipping activities.
That was enough for President Trump to drop bombs and launch missiles for hours, killing several dozen Yemeni civilians – including women and children – in the process.
After the attack, Trump not only threatened much more force to be used against Yemen, but he also threatened Iran. His National Security Advisor Mike Waltz added that the US may start bombing Iranian ships in the area, a move that would certainly lead to a major Middle East war.
Like recent Presidents Bush and Obama, candidate Trump promised peace after four years of Joe Biden’s warmongering and World War III brinkmanship. There is little doubt that with our war-weary population this proved the margin of his victory. Unfortunately, as with Bush and Obama, now that he is President, he appears to be heading down a different path.
The Republican Party is gradually becoming a pro-peace, America first party, but the warmongers and neocons of the old line in the Party are not going to let go so easily. Unfortunately many of these dead-enders have found their way to senior positions in Trump’s Administration, with voices of restraint and non-intervention nearly nowhere in sight among his top tier of advisors.
To solve the Yemen problem we must understand it: Russian and Chinese ships, for example, are not being threatened because they are not enabling the Israeli demolition of Gaza. The slaughter there has been facilitated with US money and US weapons. It is the US doing Israel’s bidding both in Gaza and in the Red Sea that is painting a target on us and unnecessarily putting our troops at risk of retaliation.
The US government, starting with Biden and continuing now with Trump, seems eager to make this our war even though, as Rep. Thomas Massie pointed out over the weekend, Red Sea shipping is of minor importance to the US economy.
In a real “America first” foreign policy we would be following the Russian and Chinese lead and staying out of the conflict. It’s not our war. End US military involvement in the Middle East and our troubles disappear. It really is that simple.
The Ron Paul fanbase has 50% overlap with the Bad Vlad Putin fanbase..... At Free Republic.
Ron Paul rating = High functioning, retard.
Ron Paul and others refuse to acknowledge the hot mess the Biden administration left that has to be cleaned up, such as Iran becoming a nuclear power.
“Would he have yelled at Thomas Jefferson too for shelling the Tripoli Musselman who impressed our ships?”
i was thinking the exact same thing, and the answer is: of course he would ...
Ron Paul is a kook, and always has been.
Some of it, not too much, has rubbed off on Rand.
If Rand has a kid, he’s probably going to be “just right.”
Alas, Ron probably neither funding Trump’s campaigns nor holds blackmail over him.
Oh, well.
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Rubio said they’ve attacked US Navy like 145+ times.
I think Ron Paul is in over his head at this time in History.
Thank God Rand is mostly normal regarding the Middle East.
As most normal people know, the Suez is crucial to global trade.
If Nicaragua was shooting rockets at ships in the Panama Canal, it would be pretty much the same thing.
Ron objects to helping Israel
I heard that, in fact, drones were shot down by F-16’s as they approached some US warships in the area.
Ron Paul is, was, and will always be, a self-righteous, smarter than everybody, malcontent.
Ron Paul is wrong on this one. Yemen’s location makes it a threat to the flow of oil, a vital security interest of the usa.
Shut UP. Crazy man.
I often agree with Ron Paul, except when I don’t.
Ron Paul accurately predicted chapter and verse all the detriment that happened to the United States when as a lonely voice he objected to the US invading Iraq, staying in Afghanistan and squandering American lives and trillions of dollars trying to “nation build” in that far away alien culture.
BTW the vast majority of the shipping in the area are Chinese goods intended for Europe, the 9/11 Saudis, Israel and North Africa. Sincerely question if any truly US flagged ships carrying American goods were attacked. Also where are resolute, loyal allies aiding in the attack on the Houthis? Soon an American pilot will be captured and forced to endure the torture of a hostage at the hands of barbarians. It will ultimately take boots on the ground, hard fighting, dead, physically and psychologically maimed brave young American servicemen in yet another fruitless foreign entanglement.
“End US military involvement in the Middle East and our troubles disappear. It really is that simple.”
Muslims will be peaceful if only we give them Israel. I don’t think so.
BINGO
We’re right back to the same thing again...trying to display people in a country that accepts terrorists and makes no effort to stop thier attacks on other countries that have not attacked them, condoning the attacks, as being innocent. It just means there is no reason for the country to try to stop the terrorists and actually is being used as shields to protect them assissting in the terrorist actions. If they are held responsible for what they are doing and incentives to stop the terrorists is applied being the only way to get their attention, then they asked for it. They are guilty of being an accessory.
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