Ron Paul and the Environment by Walter Block

Believe it or not, Congressman Paul’s critics are now claiming he is a Neville Chamberlain, who would have, were he president at the outset of World War II, have given Adolph Hitler a free ride (see here). With Dr. Paul at the helm, the last century would have been the beginning of a Nazi Reich.

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Nonsense.

First of all, a President Paul would never have foisted an oil embargo on Japan. So, there would have been no attack on Pearl Harbor, and no fighting with the Japanese military would have been necessary. This consideration alone means that hundreds of thousands of innocent people would not have perished. And, also, it would not have been the case that the U.S. would have been the only country in history to have actually used atomic weapons. (Is it not a bit hypocritical for the U.S. to object to Iran having a nuclear weapon on this ground alone?)

Second, Congress did indeed declare war on Germany; this is compatible with the U.S. Constitution, which Ron Paul, if no other candidate for President in 2012, fervently supports.

Third, and most important, it is unlikely that Hitler would have ever arisen to power in Germany without U.S. entry into World War I, in 1919. Although contrary to fact history can only be speculative, consider the following points.

Before the U.S. poked its nose into a war that was none of its business (neither side threatened us), the war was fought on a roughly equal basis. Thousands of soldiers, on both sides, perished in fighting over a few acres of trenches. Likely, this war would have petered out before too long, if only due to the fact that both sides were running out of material, human and otherwise, necessary to carry on. But, our ruling class had more bonds with the British than with the Germans, so our way ahead was clear, with no President Paul to save us from our folly…..

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via Ron Paul and the Environment by Walter Block.

 

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