Cui Bono?

Here's another piece from yet another misguided Ron Paul supporter. I got a copy of The Revolution, a Manifesto by Ron Paul and I have been reading it, growing more determined and more convinced that it's time to start talking with other people about the simple truths that he lays out in its' pages. The first chapter is about foreign policy. It is astounding that we have troops stationed in over 130 countries. More baffling still is the fact that we have had troops in Europe and Asia for over fifty years. Nobody is willing to have a sincere debate over whether or not we should even be bearing the financial burden for all of this. Our military budget is huge and byzantine. Non interventionism is not isolationism. It's just pure common sense. He paraphrases a columnist who states, "We are borrowing from Europe in order to defend Europe. We are borrowing from Japan in order to keep cheap oil flowing into Japan, and we are borrowing from Arab regimes to install "democracy" in Iraq.".
He goes on to say that.."There is an alternative to national bankruptcy, a bigger police state, trillion dollar wars, and a government that draws ever more parasitically on the productive energies of the American people. It's called Freedom."
The final part of his preface states that "These ideas cannot be allowed to die, buried beneath the mind-numbing chorus of empty slogans and inanities that constitute official political discourse in America."
It's big talk. It's a simple set of ideas which seem almost quaint given the way things are being run right now, but it's very big medicine as our aboriginal cousins would say.
After being exposed to this book, I can no longer stomach the talk radio anuses that I used to listen to for cheap amusement. That is because I begin to suspect their already shabby motives and I am starting to catch a faint reek of propaganda..the bad kind. After reading this book, I am filled with a sense of outrage, impatience, and resolve mixed with a faint feeling of hope.
We must put ourselves in the position of the quiet, insistent common man who tugs at the sleeves of the powerful and asks plainly, "who benefits from this?..Who will pay for the promises you have made?... and more directly, almost mechanically ask "Why and for whom?"