{"id":26204,"date":"2015-11-30T19:01:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T03:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=26204"},"modified":"2015-11-30T20:02:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T04:02:01","slug":"ron-paul-on-en-lindsey-graham-in-iraq-wants-us-troops-to-come-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/30\/ron-paul-on-en-lindsey-graham-in-iraq-wants-us-troops-to-come-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul on Lindsey Graham In Iraq \u2013 Wants US Troops To Come Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain have returned to the scene of the crime \u2013 Iraq \u2013 where the war they demanded has left the country shattered into a million bits with ISIS there to take care of the rebuilding. These two &#8220;experts&#8221; are forever wrong in their every utterance and policy position \u2013 remember how angry McCain became when it was pointed out that he was meeting with terrorists in Syria and telling us they were moderates? \u2013 yet the slavish US mainstream media continues to defer to their rotten judgement. Back in Iraq over the weekend, the Senators again pushed the only policy they know \u2013 war \u2013 demanding a fresh supply of young American meat to be ground up in Iraq and Syria. Troops on the ground, they scream. Give us 20,000 to start! Today&#8217;s Liberty Report looks at the logical fallacy that doing more of what caused terrorism can defeat terrorism:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Jsz5BrcA2w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain have returned to the scene of the crime \u2013 Iraq \u2013 where the war they demanded has left the country shattered into a million bits with ISIS there to take care of the rebuilding. These two &#8220;experts&#8221; are forever wrong in their every utterance and policy position \u2013 remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"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-26204","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\/26204","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\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26207,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26204\/revisions\/26207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26204"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=26204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}