Alwaght- Former presidential candidate Ron Paul, who opposes the U.S government’s interventionism in different countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan, has applauded Iran’s role in helping Iraqi government and fighting ISIS in Iraq.
In his weekly column, Ron Paul criticized U.S politicians who are upset that the U.S military is not on the ground in Iraq, doing the fighting instead of Iran. He also stresses that the U.S bombing of ISIS’s-occupied regions are not efficient, and the bombs have worsened the situation. The basis of this situation, in Paul’s opinion, was created by the US intervention in Iraq last decade. “ What the neocons who lied us into the Iraq war don’t like to admit is that there was no ISIS problem and no al-Qaeda problem in Iraq and Syria before we invaded Iraq” Ron Paul notes.
Paul believes that ISIS problem will be solved by regional countries: “it is far more likely that the ISIS problem will be solved by the countries in the region than by US bombs and ground troops.”
The former senator rejects the idea of sending troops back to Iraq and into Syria, as well as he opposes the U.S-led coalition to fight ISIS. Paul believes that the U.S intervention against the terrorist group is nonsense, since ISIS is an idea, not a country nor an army. This intervention will strengthen ISIS, because it helps the terrorist group in recruiting more radicalized fighters from Europe and the U.S. The former presidential candidate then anticipates the future and asks, “What happens when they (the European/U.S terrorists) go home?”
Paul remarks that although dedicated U.S interventionist politicians believe that ISIS is the number one threat to the U.S in the time, however, they are not happy with Iran’s current progress in defeating ISIS. Ron Paul considers that these politicians want the whole world to believe that the U.S government is the savoir, and to believe that no problem anywhere can be solved without U.S involvement. The U.S neocons and interventionists consider Iran’s current progress, against ISIS, as a destructive force to U.S government’s prestige.
Ron Paul believes that if people around the globe can solve their own local and regional issues without any US military intervention, American citizens would come to realize that U.S interventionists and neocons are their real threat to the U.S nation.
The former presidential candidate encloses his note, by an advice: “Instead of being angered at Iranian help to address the problem of ISIS, perhaps we should send them a “thank you” note.”
