Ron Paul: Benghazi a result of U.S. ‘interventionism’

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Ron Paul: Benghazi a result of U.S. ‘interventionism’

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/13/ron-paul-benghazi-result-us-interventionism/

Former Texas Rep. Ron Paul criticized Democrats and Republicans Monday for ignoring what he sees as the true cause of the Benghazi attacks: their mutual support of military interventionism overseas and its unintended consequences.

The libertarian and former GOP presidential hopeful wrote in an op-ed Monday that the post-Benghazi discussion on Capitol Hill has been “more of a sideshow” than an honest investigation of what motivated the attacks that left the U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead.

“Neither side wants to talk about the real lesson of Benghazi: Interventionism always carries with it unintended consequences,” Mr. Paul said. “The U.S. attack on Libya led to the unleashing of Islamist radicals in Libya. These radicals have destroyed the country, murdered thousands, and killed the U.S. ambassador.”

Mr. Paul said that both parties are playing a blame game.

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The elder Mr. Paul, though, said Monday that it should not come as such a shock to Republicans that the Obama administration tried to scrub the talking points from the intelligence community.
“Who can blame the administration for wanting to shift the focus?” he said. “The Islamic radicals who attacked Benghazi were the same people let loose by the U.S.-led attack on Libya. They were the rebels on whose behalf the U.S. overthrew the Libyan government. Ambassador Stevens was slain by the same Islamic radicals he personally assisted just over one year earlier.”
“But the Republicans in Congress also want to shift the blame,” he said.

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