Rand Paul's actual plan:
1. Privitize Social Security = cutting the safety net!
Yes, he's such a horrible man; wanting to allow other options and to allow people to opt out with their own retirement plans.
He's practically Satan.I will give Rand Paul credit, he is flexible and willing to change things up.
I'm sure that things that he says scares a lot of people, because millions of people depend on government waste and inefficiency, as their source of income.
Box has to terrorize people with his hysterical "he's threatening an end to Social Security" propaganda.
Or Rand Paul's desire to mind our own business with our military, instead of everyone else's business around the world.
It not a matter of abandoning people who are in trouble around the world, it's simply that it's their own internal conflicts between factions, that we keep jumping in bed with, and changing sides as needed.
I say let the United Nations and/or the World Court take action against atrocities around the world.
As far as civil wars, I realize our military is addicted to choosing a side in other countries, just as Russia and the former USSR always chose to support the opposite side, but we just can't seem to stop ourselves and the Russians can't either.
At the end of WWII, Korea, being at the time a Japanese colony, was seeking help from the UN to hold elections that would be for a single government that was the entire country. That plan was unacceptable to the US and the USSR, so they installed a western style government to rule the south and a Soviet Style Communist government to rule the North.
Must stop the threat of Communism!
Vietnam, the names are changed, but the story stays the same.
Again, the threat of Communism.
Iraq and Kuwait had their skirmish and we had to step in again.
It wasn't really our battle, because the entire mideast has many vastly different opinions of who is the rightful ruler of what lands.
We don't care about any of that nonsense, we just pick a side and have at it.
Later, we get a new brainstorm and get a warrant to use force to search Iraq for WMDs.
We heard all the stories of the evil Sadaam throwing live people into the wood chipper, his immense arsenals, and his absolute threat to the safety of the world.
So we invaded and brutalized the entire country, killing anyone who failed to drop to their knees and submit to the occupying force.
Then installed another US inspired government that seems to be immensely popular and has transformed the region into a new world paradise, where corruption, crime, killings, bombings are daily occurrences, brought about by the government not being able to control their new gift of a free US style society.
Afghanistan, the Soviets were actually asked in by the government to help them deal with the rebels, like the Mujahadeen.
The Soviets came in and took over the whole place starting a massive war that lasted 9 years.
As usual, we funded the Mujahadeen against the government of Afghanistan and against the Soviets.
The Soviet intervention cost them 14,000 soldiers, but the entire war killed 1 million civilians and displaced millions as refugees.
In 2001 after 911 Bush demanded the leaders of Afghanistan turn over Osama Bun Laden.
When they declined to extradite him without evidence of his involvement in the 9/11 attacks, Bush launched an attack and built military bases throughout the country, knocking the Taliban out of power and renaming them as insurgents.
Tens of thousands more civilians died and ten thousand or more Afghanistan troops died as well.
Libya, another great success where we helped the insurgents.
Syrian rebels, we just can't help ourselves, we have to get in every single countries internal affairs.
Now we don't even limit our attacks to a single country, we just launch missiles into whatever country we claim has a terrorist hiding out in it.
So now we are just going to bomb the piss out of random places where the ISIS boogey men are hiding, and this should work out as well as the last dozen times we interfered, and left the places worse than when we came.
We fund them, we give them weapons, we give air strikes as support, we get tired of them, they get too powerful, we rename them terrorists and we get new enemies that we created, helped into power, then turned our backs on.
We couldn't have done worse if we tried.
But we should be confident that once we take care of ISIS, it will all be worth it.
Apr. 13, 1936
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