01 Feb 2012By Saeed Qureshi
Libertarian candidate Ron Paul's purported objective
to recall American troops engaged in fighting on
foreign lands is one monumental step that would save
an incredibly huge pile of dollars to be spent at home
for rebuilding America.
Ron Paul is the person among the whole lot of
Republican candidates for the presidential race who
does not mince words nor speaks with tongue in cheeks.
He is honest and a true American who can redeem our
country from an abyss it is immersed up to scalp. The
Republican candidates make the same tall yet inane
promises of flowing milk and honey in this country are
hypocritical and harping on the same superfluous tunes
that so many others like them have done in the past
but when in power shirked from fulfilling their
commitments.
The cardinal issues among others in the ongoing
debates are jobs, poor economy, and size of the
government, taxation, and social services like
infrastructure, healthcare and education. We have
tried and voted into power the ultra-conservatives and
we have also supported the so called moderates who
pledged making this country the greatest of all. No
one delivered in accord with their high sounding
promises and fell back in the lap of pressure groups
that loot this country on various pretexts.
There was a God given chance for America to lead the
world after the defeat of the Soviet Union in
Afghanistan in 1989 following the decade long war that
was essentially fought by the Mujahedeen and even
Muslim jihadist drawn from all over the world. The
senior Bush rousingly declared the heralding of a new
world order to be lorded over by mighty United States.
That was one unique and defining moment of glory and
accomplishment for the United States.
But instead of leading the world with justice,
equality, neutrality, equanimity, peace and prudence,
the United States turned against the very Islamic
warriors who rendered incredible sacrifices for United
States catapulting it to the dizzying heights of
splendor and realization of a cherished dream which
was to defeat a formidable adversary in both
ideological and military terms.
What the senior Bush had proudly pronounced, his
unscrupulous son the junior Bush nullified and brought
America into a sordid and horrendous situation of
military warfare by reigniting wars in Afghanistan
followed by another war in Iraq for counterfeit and
spurious reasons that changed from time to time. The
resultant colossal loss of life on both sides and
ruinous fallout on American economy are writ large.
Now America has a three trillion dollars deficit due
to spending on wasteful and unjustified wars. The
Muslim nations, by and large have been aligned with
the liberal and capitalist West whose resources such
as oil was voraciously used by America and the west on
easy terms.
But forgetting of the historic role of the Muslims in
Afghanistan, the deplorable attacks of September 11,
2001 carried out by a few misguided Arab young
individuals were put in the lap of the entire Muslim
world. America initiated a new war that was labeled as
"Clash of civilizations. But primarily its undertones
were west led by America versus the Islamic nations.
Now it in indeed a belated realization by America that
instead of hanging on to these decades long fruitless
wars, it was indispensible to recoil and withdraw due
to escalating drastic downturn of American economy.
One may ask that besides plunging the entire glob into
a decades' long turmoil, what worthwhile benefits this
great country has derived, except a battered economy,
neglecting domestic development, stalling space
exploration, hyped cost of living, and lowering the
morale of the Americans with despondent feelings of
losing hope.
It is in this challenging situation and accelerating
deterioration that we need a new leader with a vision
distinctly different from the stereo demagogues and
habitual promise makers. Such a leader is no one else
but Ron Paul who is neither left nor rights, neither
hard line conservative nor a socialist but a sincere
modest leader who can redeem America from further
drift and decline.
All other contestants among the Republicans and
Democrats are in favor of the exploitative pressure
groups, influential lobbyists, ruthless corporations
and rapacious big business sectors. These aspirants
for power seldom talk of taxing the rich and wealthy
and super duper business and industrial tycoons,
because they draw fabulous financial benefits and huge
donations from them and return the odious compliment
by supporting legislation to safeguard their
self-serving interests.
Ron Paul is brave, outspoken, and offers a remarkable
manifesto for real change from status quo and
universal antagonism to bridling the decadence at home
and making amends with the world at large. Ron is one
distinguished person among the whole lot who does not
have sleazy or doubtful baggage from his past. He is
modest in living and unlike his contenders is neither
a tried horse nor filthy rich.
The lobbies of special group interest closely or
remotely remain linked with the politicians and the
congressmen and senators for facilitating legislation
that keeps their economic regimes intact and ensure
huge profit making. Ron Paul is not only against
external purposeless wars but has substantive agenda
for restoring and reviving the real America that was
laid-out by the illustrious founding fathers of this
unique nation.
He favors modest and small sized government and check
the greed of the cutthroat elite and wealthy classes.
He is unflinchingly committed and is a veritable
successor of those eminent leaders who shaped America
and had a great far-reaching luminous vision to
indemnify the liberties and fundamental rights of the
citizens.
So America needs to straighten its moral rudder which
can be only performed by Ron Paul who talks of
fairness, non partisanship and non interference in
other countries affairs. He supports a nation for the
Palestinian state so that an historic injustice is put
right. He wants both Israel and Palestinian states to
exist side by side.
He does not want another war front to be opened
against Iran for no compelling reasons. The
influential war lobbies in United States would
bitterly oppose such an earnest American as he is one
who is challenging their urge for war mongering and
speaks for civil liberties and rights of the American
people.
As far nuclear technology and weapons he equates
Israel and Iran at par and wants to also focus on
Israel's nuclear stockpiles in comparison to Iran. The
Obama administration is fomenting the same
confrontational environment with Iran as George Bush
did with the Taliban way back in 2001. If that ruse
did not pay the then administration then there is a
slim likelihood that it would benefit the incumbent
administration as well.
Ron Paul wants to wash off and rectify deformities
in American foreign policy and in her relations with
the rest of the world. He abhors pick and choose
policy by making friends and foes, create fictitious
conditions for launching wars and then recoil after
horrendous damage and loss, as we can witness in case
of Afghanistan and Iraq.
If Ron Paul is elected to the highest office in
America which is presidency, he would be a true
reformer and a committed redeemer setting this country
on a course that would endear it to the entire world.
Such a policy would bring to an end or scale it down
the malignancy and rivalry that exists between America
and other countries dubbed as hostile.
It is high time that America instead of perpetuating
deadly wars should think of winning the hearts and
minds of the world population. It should desist from
creating hostile pockets dividing the nations and then
supporting one against the other. A soft and friendly
America can rule the world under a new benign order
provided it embarks upon a path of fraternity with all
nations and shuns the syndrome of hostile or allied
nations and war psychosis.
It should be carrot that should be used to rally the
states around her and not stick and gun that provoke
hatred and bring bad name to America; otherwise the
biggest donor for humanitarian causes on the face of
the earth. Let America for a change prove that it can
be friend and humane to the other states and was
shunning belligerency and propensities for hegemony.
It is foregone that the countries whether hostile or
friendly would respond to such benign postures, with
an equal measure of warmth, goodwill and an earnest
desire to make the world an abode of peace, harmony
and progress.
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