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And I thought Chuck Hagel was more of a non-interventionist than Rand!!! LOL
In Vietnam, the US tried to heavily arm the South Vietnamese Army, and gave them a whole bunch of high tech weaponry, when it became clear the United States could no longer keep fighting with its own troops. This became a catastrophe, because the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese Army then launched an offensive, adn was soon capturing tons of advanced american weapory, and turning it against the South Vietnamese.
Same will happen here. It is too late to try to arm the Syrian rebels. They are too politically fractured, and because they are now losing, it will only get worse. (It's easy to show solidarity when winning, it is almost impossible when losing). So any arms sent to the Syrian rebels will most assuredly by and large end up in the hands of Hezbollah, the PKK, and the Syrian army.
The Bastiat Collection ˇ FREE PDF ˇ FREE EPUB ˇ PAPER Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
- "When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law."
-- The Law (p. 54)- "Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
-- Government (p. 99)- "[W]ar is always begun in the interest of the few, and at the expense of the many."
-- Economic Sophisms - Second Series (p. 312)- "There are two principles that can never be reconciled - Liberty and Constraint."
-- Harmonies of Political Economy - Book One (p. 447)ˇ tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito ˇ
Why can't we in this country just agree there is no good side in this war and just let them fight it out? Not our problem.
I already posted this with the CNN article.
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
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