In the wake of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s CIA torture memo release, former Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) has suggested that America should get rid of its premier intelligence agencies and bring all of our troops back home.
Paul’s pacifistic world-view is articulated in his Voices of Liberty op-ed, where he states, “all of our wars--we would come home from the 150 countries where we have troops stationed,” in recommending a government shutdown that defunds overseas operations.
In Paul’s view, America should not be a world leader, but instead only focus on internal matters. The threats posed by actors such as ISIS and Al Qaeda exist simply due to grievances generated from America’s activities overseas, according to Dr. Paul. He has in the past blamed the 9/11 attacks on blowback from the United States presence overseas, and not the terrorists’ jihadist ideology.
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3 comments:
DHS and TSA are more of an impediment to actual freedom than the other two......
If they were done correctly, DHS would keep bad people from getting in to the country and we would not need the TSA to the extent they want to be involved....we don't call them Terrorism Succeeded Again for no reason!
He's right .and.we continue to allow the feeding of this massive invasive instrusion into the true target ...the constitution
This is a little unrealistic. I agree that some services should be closed and there needs to be more accountability but to pull all troops within our own border would leave American citizens abroad at risk. Many Americans work overseas and many are tourist.
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