From today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:
Coming off a disastrous Middle East trip, at which he was shunned at every stop, Biden’s Secretary of State Tony Blinken returned to a “dissent” memo signed by numerous State Department officials opposing current US policy. With poll numbers sagging for Biden – and even worse for Kamala – what’s Team Biden’s next move? All out war?
Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.
On COI #494, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman discuss the Israeli war on Palestinians.
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Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.
The ongoing Israeli attacks against Gaza put me to mind of one of my favorite science fiction books as a teenager, Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers. In that book, a military veteran and teacher of “history and moral philosophy” is discussing violence with high school students. One of them blithely says violence never solves anything, which draws this memorable response from her hard-nosed instructor:
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue – and thoroughly immoral – doctrine that ‘violence never settles anything,’ I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.
In Heinlein’s book, humans were at war with an alien species and those who chose military service to fight against “the bugs” got the right to vote and participate as citizens in government.
Antiwar.com news editor Dave DeCamp appeared on the Timcast Show (Tim Poole podcast) on Friday.
On COI #493, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest news about American foreign policy.
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