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Title: Blinded by the Left: How Marxists Wrote Ron Paul's Defense Cuts Plan
Source:
Big Government
URL Source: http://biggovernment.com/tloudon/20 ... e-ron-pauls-defense-cuts-plan/
Published: Jan 8, 2012
Author: Trevor Loudon
Post Date: 2012-01-08 17:56:14 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: Ron Paul, Truthers, kooks, cult, Kool-Aid, Troofers
Views: 362
While many conservatives rightly admire Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul’s principled economic and constitutional views, they are often bamboozled, even appalled, by the Texan’s defense and foreign policy ideas. It seems, that when it comes to defense, Ron Paul is stuck in 1776. He seems not to realize that America’s enemies, real or potential, Russia and China, and Iran chief among them, have a very long reach. The continental US is only partially protected by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans . The enemy can now attack the American homeland with ICBMs, biological weapons, cyber warfare, dirty bombs smuggled across the Mexican border – any number of deadly methods of mass destruction. Just as frontier forts would have outposts to warn of Indian attack, the US needs people all over the world to protect not just her friends and allies, but the American homeland itself. Why then does Ron Paul, a man so supremely rational in many areas, have such a blind spot when it comes to US national security? The answer, in my opinion, is that Ron Paul’s justified distrust at the growth of government power in many unconstitutional areas, has irrationally created an antipathy to Federal Government activity in one of its few legitimate areas – national defense. Further, Ron Paul’s libertarian suspicion of big government defense spending , has been deliberately fostered and encouraged by the most anti libertarian elements in the land – the US hard left. Ron Paul, and many libertarians think they can work with the left to achieve libertarian ends. The hard bitten Leninists and disciplined Marxists of the left know they can use naive libertarians to achieve their ends – particularly to gut America’s defenses to the benefit of their foreign masters. In short, the US left is using Ron Paul and other libertarians, to do what their armies and intelligence services have long dreamed of – destroying America’s military superiority, and with it, US national sovereignty. By promoting the left’s defense policies, Ron Paul, a man of patriotism beyond question, could be unknowingly betraying his own country to its enemies. The degree to which Ron Paul buys into leftist anti defense views was well illustrated in 2010. That year, The Sustainable Defense Task Force was formed in response to a request from far left Massachusetts Democratic Representative Barney Frank , working in cooperation with Representative Ron Paul and Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Wyden; to “explore possible defense budget contributions to deficit reduction efforts that would not compromise the essential security of the United States”. What did the much heralded report recommend? The Taskforce’s proposals included cutting nuclear deterrence, reducing the fleet by 57 ships, including two carriers, canceling the Joint Strike Fighter, “severely curtail missile defense” (a direct quote from the report)., retiring four Marine battalions, reducing the military by 200,000 personnel, cutting defense research spending by 50 billion over ten years, and increasing health care fees for military personnel. Daniel Greenfield of the excellent Sultan Knish blog, points out that many of the groups contributing to the report were funded by the notorious leftist billionaire, George Soros. But Soros was not the only sinister influence here. Several report contributors had direct ties to the Marxists of Democratic Socialists of America, and indirect ties to the Communist Party USA . Members of both organizations have been convicted of spying for hostile foreign powers. Both have ties to radical regimes such as Cuba and Venezuela. Both want to overturn US capitalism and replace it with Marxist socialism. Other contributors have ties to the ultra-leftist Institute or Policy Studies, once described by British analyst Brian Crozier, as the “perfect intellectual front for Soviet activities which would be resisted if they were to originate openly from the KGB. Another associated with the Council for a Livable World – America’s oldest and best funded ‘peace” Political Action Committee. The Council was founded in 1962 by Hungarian expatriate Leo Szilard, a former Manhattan Project physicist, a Marxist and reported Soviet spy. Council for a Livable World has helped finance hundreds of pro “peace” leftists into office, including Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Sustainable Defense Taskforce commissioners Barney Frank and Ron Wyden. On February 4, 2010, the Council for a Livable World announced that David Bonior would become the next chair of PeacePAC, the organization’s arm that endorses candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives. At the time Bonior commented, A former Democratic Party Whip, Bonior has, since 2007, been an open member of Democratic Socialists of America. The Project on Defense Alternatives, coordinated the work of the Task Force. Carl Conetta drafted the main body... Click for Full Text!
Barack Obama in 1994, with Council for a Livable World chairman,
and Democratic Socialists of America affiliate , Jerome Grossman “I am honored to be selected as the next chairman of PeacePAC. I look forward to working with the experts on the committee’s Board of Directors to endorse and help elect strong, progressive candidates in the 2010 elections.
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