Ron Paul: America’s “Sociology Of Imperialism”
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“… a spike in fuel costs as oil skyrockets.”
What to make of this???
http://nikkihaley2014.com/
(Sounds like it won’t be a Great Day at the Gas Pump.)
Higher than that… where did u find that??? That is funny.
Well, apparently people who voted for him never cared about the “EMPIRE”… the whole oh well all empires fall eventually is the attitude that’s gonna do us in. Hope congress says no or ur hope amd change will be a third world country when ur gas is $10 a gallon and u can’t afford food.
Yeh they could have voted for John McCain or Mitt Romney.Two real peaceniks there.
You Republicans are hilarious!
Good ol’ bomb bomb bomb, bomb-bomb Iran himself. lol…
I’m not a republican. So I’m not sure who ur talking too. I don’t like obama.
Nor do u have too. Says the one with the name sarah Palin forever. Oh but that’s roght if u don’t like obama, ur evil… oh go to hell
Of course you’re not.
At this point, I’m not even sure what being a republican means.
Sadly, that old chessnut about empires failing or fading away is about 100% spot on……
If there are any Norwegians that read FITSNEWS (or anyone else that feels froggy): could someone please explain the whole Obama/Nobel Peace Prize thing to TBG.
“A møøse ønce bit my sister. Nø, rilli..”
Hello? “The Alamo doesn’t have a basement!!!”
If (9″) catches that photo – in 5,4,3,2,1, ……….
You mean ,Ron Paul(PMGO*)? Fritz is still my guy,but since you’re waiting, and into him:
http://wonkette.com/448018/sexy-shirtless-ron-paul-photos-ignite-americas-hearts
*Puking My Guts Out
Haw-Haw… I was jokingly referring to the main photo of Little Barry Fauntleroy!
But he’s black(sorta)! GBIWM’S only..
TRANSLATED FRENCH & GERMAN INTEL ASSESSMENTS OF SARIN (GB) ATTACK:
http://syriaradio.blogspot.com
If Ron Paul was around and in control in 1940 we would either be speaking Japanese or German right now
I’m sure we’ll be speaking Arabic if we don’t bomb Syria.
That language is so (@*#^ing hard to speak I wouldn’t count on us speaking it if they bombed New York. Wait,…
They don’t need to, they control all the taxis
RP is very intelligent but you are so right _ he missed this critical history lesson- Hitler and others started like this.
Unfortunately, humans will find a way to be at war but the blatant slaughter of innocents being tolerated by a global community is obscene.
Hitler and others started like this
Hitler certainly didn’t follow the “eye doctor to world leader” template. Don’t know of any others of the top of my head. (But TBG has high hopes for 2016!)
Just to point out two (of an incredible number of flaws in your theory). Japan attacked the US. Germany declared war on the US. While Ron Paul is a “Golden Rule” kind of guy., he is not a “turn the other cheek” kind of guy when it comes to national defense.
Now, if Ron Paul had been around and in control in 1917…there would probably not have even been a World War II. So there.
thank you, good to know someone understand the good Dr. :)
Actually, you are wrong, because Dr. Paul would have pulled us out of our territories in the Pacific long before the war with Japan, and he never would have agreed to assist England in their war with Germany. The independent nation of Hawaii would have fallen to the Japanese with no interference from us (no foreign entanglements), and Germany would have had no reason to declare war on the US as we would definitely not have been supplying the British.
With the good Doctor at the helm we probably could have avoided war with both Japan and Germany, at lest until they were ready to join forces and attack us. Of course by that time, Germany would probably have developed the Atom Bomb.
Although none of us can know what would have happened under “alternate history” scenarios, TBG believes that, without Wilson’s misguided (though well-meaning) intervention in WWI, Germany would have probably signed a truce with the allies and without the punishing Treaty of Versailles, Hitler and the National Socialists would have never risen to power.
TBG doesn’t see any reason why Imperial Japan would invade Hawaii (the Philippines, yes).
TBG will also point out that FDR avoided war with Japan and Germany until they were ready to attack us. (Actually TBG believes that FDR forced Japan’s hand with the oil embargo and, after Pearl Harbor, Hitler saw the writing on the wall.)
I have to disagree. They would have wanted Hawaii because it is an excellent locations for navel and air bases. Especially if you wanted the capacity to threaten the US Mainland. But even more importantly it would make an excellent base location for the US in the event of a conflict.
You make a good point.
Oh, and as far as 1917 and WWII, we don’t know that WWII would not have occurred. All we know is it would have been a very different war, because if Ron Paul had been elected President in 1916, by 1939 we would have been looking at a United States of Europe with its capital in Berlin.
TBG is not a big fan of the European Union, either.
No, Ron Paul would have stood by and let the Lusitania go unanswered and stood by as the Turks took over what was left of the Middle East as allies of Germany and more than likely gas would have been $2.00/gallon at the peak of US oil production in the early 1970’s instead of ~30 cents/gallon ( I was around then when K-Mart gas was 17 cents/gallon in 1970). Saw the whole thing go to shit as a result of the Yom Kippur War in Oct 1973 as a bullet-proof paratrooper on the Green Ramp at Pope AFB waiting to go toe to toe with the Ruskies on 25 Oct 1973. That alert scared the shit out of me and the economy hasen’t been the same since. The 40th anniversary of the war is next month and Yom Kippur is 13-14 Sept this year. I get a little uneasy every Yom Kippur since Oct 1973 and this one might be a dozy………
Japanese expansion in the 30’s and 40’s had absolutely nothing to do with WWI and your boy Ron Paul would have stood by and not embargoed the Japanese which did of course set the stage for Pearl harbor but non the less his mindset would not have said or done one thing about the rape of China and Indonesia just an “Oh-well,shit happens” as he so aptly stated in his latest manifest
No matter how you slice it, war with Germany and Japan was inevitable. All it took was one spark and the Japanese thought we would have no stomach for a fight due to the dip-shit isolationists back then. Ron Paul would have been one of them and just the guy they would have wanted to be president around 1940.
In all probability, Ron Paul would have been a card carrying member of the KKK in the ’20’s (“Ni**ers,Jews and Catholics need not apply/stay out of town”) & the Bund in 38 – 40.
You can put your money on that.
My personal opinion on this whole situation is this a job for the UN and if the UN can’t get a handle on this with our support, then we should leave it at that and state that the UN is only good for health and agricultural matters and nothing else and greatly reduce its funding.
Air strikes ain’t gonna do much especially when we have diddled around and they have had plenty of time to move shit around. I served in Bosnia and this ain’t Bosnia
Only thing that might work is seal off Syria at their borders and quarantine like the Cuban Missile Crisis. No more weapons or resupply, allow only food,medicine and essential fuel stocks. But you’re gonna need troops on the ground for that……….
Then again, the French just might come out on top of this. That was sorta their back yard as part of “The Great Game” and as a big player in the Suez Crisis in the late 50’s – talk about wheeling & dealing. That was in October as well………..
But that is another story for another day……………
Long and short: “Fuck a bunch of Ron Paul” – crazy old bastard……
Come on SC, you are really going out on a limb, extrapolating 1970 gas prices from whether or not the US got involved in WWI!!
TBG gets a little uneasy around Yom Kippur, also.
….embargoed the Japanese which did of course set the stage for Pearl harbor…
No I was extrapolating the Turks in WWI and IF the German and her allies has WON WWI due to your guy Ron Paul staying out of WWI IF he was prez at the time.
I’m a Gentile so my unease is a direct result of Yom Kippur 1973 and us going to DEFCON 3 and Israel damn near going nuclear a few days after the war started and on 25 Oct when we were alerted.
“Like some Civil War soldier said, I’ve been scared a number of times, but I was never as scared as I was at Shilo”
Insert Yom Kippur ’73 for me…….
Wait, the U.S. bombed Japan and Germany in 1940?
As much as I like Dr. Paul, I would not use Schumpeter’s book. It was not intervention which expanded the Roman Pomarium, but rather the incessant series of invasions from the early Celts (Gauls) to the Germans to the Vandals and so on. Their biggest foe was not some presumed enemy beyond the walls, but rather inflation and ethical dissolution. This is not to say that there was no interventionism, but instead, the real culprit was something far more basic.
whoops – again!
I have read much about Rome’s expansion into western Europe and being of Celtic descent I have more than my share of ill feelings about Rome.
I have come to the conclusion that the only way countries/nations prosper is either by conquest or true trade. Unfortunately one usually gets mixed up with the other and bad shit happens every time. Rome’s expansion to absorb more riches and materials through conquest ran into that old bugaboo of the “Law of Diminishing Returns”. They needed to expand in order to get more stuff and it got more expensive to get the stuff and the stuff wasn’t as plentiful as in earlier times and so forth and so on and the citizens of Rome were getting in a squeeze from the excesses of Rome.
There’s a lesson there somewhere……..
Ron Paul is a former U.S. Congressman from Texas and the leader of the pro-liberty, pro-free market, pro- wacky idea, pro-goofy rhetoric, non legislative accomplishment, lack of any real historical depth, non-existent personality movement in the United States. His weekly column – reprinted with permission – can be found lining bird cages and tacked to Dr. Paul sycophants bulletin boards all over the country – all 23, 241 of them.
Will, you didn’t publish his whole by-line, I added it for you…
whoops!
Hmmmm, maybe there is a lesson for us there after all….
Ya think?
Colonel
Now you’re talking about my people – the Celts
Ever hear of Vercingetorix (sp) of Gaul or Bodica of Britian?
Vercingetorix was Chief of the Arverni (a Gaulish Tribe). He soundly defeated the Romans at the battle of Gergovia in central France only to be defatted four months later defending his fortress in Alesia. He was captured, held for several years and led through the streets of Rome in Julius Caesar’s “Triumph”. Vercingetorix was strangled to death privately in prison.
Alesia was the turning point in the Gallic Wars. Though the Gauls vastly outnumbered the Romans, Caesar built a wall around the Gaulish fort to enforce a siege then with typical Roman efficiency, reduced the fort and won the battle – he had help, Mark Antony and Titus Labienus were two of his more capable subordinates.
The Celtic Queen Boudicca fared only slightly better, after having to watch while her two daughters were raped to death, she led an uprising. After defeating early Roman incursions into her kingdom in what is now known as East Anglia, she wound up taking poison in her throne room after a series of defeats by the Romans. While she was one of the original “ass kicking women of history”.
Yep,
I figured you would know who they were.
Fuckin Romans
But you gotta hand it to them they were organized and ruthless
Welcome back BTW. How was your deployment.?
It’s 1620 here (the time not the year though whenever I venture out into the countryside I sometimes wonder… ).
7 months left.
I’ve always wondered if they still taught the lessons of history in the academy. Boooha
you’re an idiot
Well thanks Skeet – where’s my over under when I need it…