Ron Paul is the most intelligent, articulate and
courageous spokesman of foreign policy realism in the US. Though for
most of his career he has been an outsider his views on foreign policy
are gaining a wider audience.
If one were to believe the western
narrative, a political dissident is someone standing up against a
political regime which has fallen out of favour with NATO. For example
one could point to Ahmed Chalabi, the thieving Iraqi con-artist who
authored many of the lies which were repeated by George Bush and Tony
Blair in the run up to the disastrous war on Iraq.
But for those with a more expansive and
honest lexicon, a political dissident is someone who stands against the
status quo and fights for a totally new method of government against
great odds. Ron Paul is a man who fits this definition and as such, he has become one of the most admirable political dissidents of the 21st century.
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