{"id":16520,"date":"2014-10-22T06:53:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T04:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16520"},"modified":"2014-10-22T06:55:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T04:55:02","slug":"obamas-immoral-and-illegal-war-in-iraq-and-syria-ron-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16520","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Obama&#8217;s immoral and illegal war in Iraq and Syria&#8217;: Ron Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama&#8217;s new wars in Iraq and Syria are totally immoral as well as illegal under US and international law, RPI Chairman Ron Paul told RT&#8217;s Abby Martin in September. The idea that US force will solve the problem is also mistaken, he said. &#8220;US action will increase the violence,&#8221; rather than reduce it, he added.<\/p>\n<p>In a lengthy interview, broadcast on RT&#8217;s popular &#8220;Breaking the Set&#8221; program, Dr. Paul wonders why the countries in the region, feeling the pressure from ISIS, do not get together to solve the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Said Dr. Paul about US involvement in the fight:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why should someone 6,000 miles away, that has been stirring this pot for so long, be the group that is going to bring everyone together and organize the fight?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fearmongers who have terrified many Americans into supporting another war in the Middle East are &#8220;not concerned with the defense of America,&#8221; said Ron Paul. But the weapons manufacturers are making out very well, with the US bombing its own weapons that have fallen into the hands of ISIS. &#8211; Daniel McAdams<\/p>\n<p>Watch the whole interview here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8thCrozNJxs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama&#8217;s new wars in Iraq and Syria are totally immoral as well as illegal under US and international law, RPI Chairman Ron Paul told RT&#8217;s Abby Martin in September. The idea that US force will solve the problem is also mistaken, he said. &#8220;US action will increase the violence,&#8221; rather than reduce it, he added. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16520\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Obama&#8217;s immoral and illegal war in Iraq and Syria&#8217;: Ron Paul&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,123],"tags":[2471,90,114,198,1808],"class_list":["post-16520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","category-world","tag-iraq","tag-obama","tag-ron-paul","tag-syria","tag-war"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16522,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16520\/revisions\/16522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}