Are You Ready for War With Syria?

Are You Ready for War With Syria?

by Rep. Ron Paul

Listen to Rep. Paul deliver this address. War drums are beating again in Washington. This time Syria is in the crosshairs after a massacre there last week left more than 100 dead. As might be expected from an administration with an announced policy of “regime change” in Syria, the reaction was to blame only the [...]

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Syria’s Insurrection Is Not America’s War

by Patrick J. Buchanan

In pushing for U.S. military intervention in Syria — arming the insurgents and using U.S. air power to “create safe zones” for anti-regime forces “inside Syria’s borders” — The Washington Post invokes “vital U.S. interests” that are somehow imperiled there. Exactly what these vital interests are is left unexplained. For 40 years, we have lived [...]

The Houla Hoaxsters

by Justin Raimondo

It was supposed to be another “Benghazi moment” – an incident so horrific that it would spark Western military intervention in Syria’s increasingly violent civil war. The massacre at Houla was reported to be just such a moment: Syria’s security forces stand accused of killing 32 children under ten years of age, and more than [...]

Syria: America vs. Israel?

Washington should remember the lessons of blowback and avoid intervention in Syria.