{"id":24158,"date":"2014-08-29T10:13:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T18:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=24158"},"modified":"2014-08-29T10:13:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T18:13:50","slug":"ron-paul-on-isis-syria-and-foreignfollies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/29\/ron-paul-on-isis-syria-and-foreignfollies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul on ISIS, Syria, and Foreign&nbsp;Follies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just weeks ago President Obama requested an extra $500 million dollars for Syrian rebels. Now with the ISIS rebels having spread across northern Iraq, European sources tell us that the U.S. is passing intelligence on to the Syrian army to target rebels in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The elective Bush war in Iraq for WMDs that never were is a good case history in the folly of U.S. interventionism. But the rise of ISIS is an even more compact representation of interventionism\u2019s contradictions and failures. <\/p>\n<p>This week <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.weissresearchissues.com\/videos\/2014\/ron-paul-and-charles-goyette-the-weekly-podcast-26-142890?t=EPH126463\">Dr. Paul and Charles Goyette talk about<\/a> ISIS, Syria, and U.S. foreign policy follies.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.weissresearchissues.com\/videos\/2014\/ron-paul-and-charles-goyette-the-weekly-podcast-26-142890?t=EPH126463\">Listen Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/charlesgoyette.com\/\">Charles Goyette<\/a> is <i>New York Times<\/i> Bestselling Author of <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Dollar-Meltdown-Unconventional-Investments\/dp\/B0040RMF2K\/antiwarbookstore\"><i>The Dollar Meltdown<\/i><\/a><i> and <\/i><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Red-Blue-Broke-All-Over\/dp\/B00B9ZH4UY\/antiwarbookstore\"><i>Red and Blue and Broke All Over: Restoring America\u2019s Free Economy<\/i><\/a>. Check out Goyette and Paul\u2019s national radio commentary: <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaulsamerica.info\/\"><i>Ron Paul\u2019s America<\/i><\/a> and the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/podcastone.com\/Ron-Pauls-Podcast\"><i>Ron Paul and Charles Goyette Weekly Podcast<\/i><\/a>. Goyette also edits <a HREF=\"http:\/\/charlesgoyette.com\/newsletter\/\"><i>The Freedom and Prosperity Letter<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just weeks ago President Obama requested an extra $500 million dollars for Syrian rebels. Now with the ISIS rebels having spread across northern Iraq, European sources tell us that the U.S. is passing intelligence on to the Syrian army to target rebels in Syria. The elective Bush war in Iraq for WMDs that never were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-24158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24160,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24158\/revisions\/24160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24158"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}