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Presidential candidate Ron Paul is exactly right concerning the long-term destabilizing consequences of the tragic aftermath to 9/11, and the decades of disastrous foreign policy interventionism in the Middle East which preceded the attacks. The illegal and unconstitutional Bush/Obama pre-emptive wars of aggression in the region have not made us safer or enhanced our national security. They have weakened our defense posture and bankrupted our nation. The invasive USA Patriot Act and draconian TSA abuse at the nation's airports have brought the battle front to the American homeland. But the war is not upon enemies abroad but upon the American people and their rights and liberties. Such actions have unforeseen consequences. The CIA calls it "blowback." Military adventurism and CIA covert actions (such as Operation Ajax, the 1953 Iranian coup d'etat re-installing the Shah whose brutal policies directly led to the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the hostage crisis) have destabilized the region. Our present actions in Iraq have further driven that nation into the hands of these Iranian Shite extremists. As Mujahedeen ("Soldiers of God"), Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda were a direct consequence of the CIA's massive covert intervention in Afghanistan against the Soviets beginning in the late 1970s under the Carter administration, continuing unabated under Reagan through the 1980s. Military adventurism bankrupted and destroyed the Soviet empire. It is doing the same to our American empire. Millions of grassroots Americans from all political parties and all walks of life and backgrounds have recognized that twelve term Congressman Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate seriously addressing the crucial linkage between both our unsustainable military presence of 900 overseas bases in 130 countries (and five ongoing undeclared wars), and our unsustainable entitlement system built upon shifting fiscal sand and massive deficit spending. This fraudulent welfare-warfare state, enabled by covert monetary manipulation by the Federal Reserve, is bankrupting the American people. We have a national debt approaching fifteen trillion dollars, with outstanding future obligations of $104,000,000,000,000,000 in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Civil Service and Veterans benefits, etc. America is a constitutional republic, not an empire. We are not the policeman of the world. It is time to end the empire, end the wars, and bring the troops home. It is time for strategic disengagement and nonintervention in the internal affairs of other nations. It is time to restore peace, prosperity, and freedom to America. It is time for Ron Paul 2012.