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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.931
EAN: 9781600243554
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 160024355X
Label: Hachette Audio
Manufacturer: Hachette Audio
Number Of Items: 5
Publication Date: 2008-04-30
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Studio: Hachette Audio
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This Much Is True: You Have Been Lied To.
- The government is expanding.
- Taxes are increasing.
- More senseless wars are being planned.
- Inflation is ballooning.
- Our basic freedoms are disappearing.
The Founding Fathers didn't want any of this. In fact, they said so quite clearly in the Constitution of the United States of America. Unfortunately, that beautiful, ingenious, and revolutionary document is being ignored more and more in Washington. If we are to enjoy peace, freedom, and prosperity once again, we absolutely must return to the principles upon which America was founded. But finally, there is hope . . .
In THE REVOLUTION,Texas congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul has exposed the core truths behind everything threatening America, from the real reasons behind the collapse of the dollar and the looming financial crisis, to terrorism and the loss of our precious civil liberties. In this book, Ron Paul provides answers to questions that few even dare to ask.
Despite a media blackout, this septuagenarian physician-turned-congressman sparked a movement that has attracted a legion of young, dedicated, enthusiastic supporters . . . a phenomenon that has amazed veteran political observers and made more than one political rival envious. Candidates across America are already running as "Ron Paul Republicans."
"Dr. Paul cured my apathy," says a popular campaign sign. THE REVOLUTION may cure yours as well.
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Summary: Best I've Ever Read
Comment: I have nothing to add that hasn't already been said...this is a book for the ages, period.
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Summary: Wake Up People!
Comment: What a great book. Every year that goes by we are loosing more and more of our freedoms and nobody questions things anymore. But Ron Paul does.
Very well written and full of good information.
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Summary: Facile foreign policy
Comment: I disagree with most of the foreign policy assertions in this book. Let me just start out by saying that the U.S. followed a "non-interventionist" policy in Asia in the 1930s, and Japan ran wild. America's foreign policy toward Europe was also "non-interventionist". Where did that get us ? U-boats off the coast of New Jersey in 1941. The notion that the world will not be hostile to the U.S., if the U.S. follows non-intervention is facile. Vacuums are filled, and power vacuums are filled by up-and-coming powers who are more than glad to fill them.
The Wahhabist terrorists who are the source of modern terrorism lived in the 1700s, long before America supported Israel. Ron Paul makes it seem like Islamic terrorism only began in 1948, when the U.S. supported Israel. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Anti-western hatred in the Muslim world is at least 200 years old. Qtub, the Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (the parent group to all modern Sunni terror organizations) began preaching against not U.S. foreign policy, but against "moral laxity" (women not wearing the headcovering, etc. after he visited the United States). Indeed, if you read the book "The Looming Tower", the only goal of these terror groups is to destroy things that are not Sunni fundamentalist, and to enforce headcoverings for women. It has nothing to do with Israel. In fact, read Bin Ladin's writings. Israel does not come up, or only briefly. But "retaking" "Andalusia" (southern Spain) plays a big role in Al Quida ideology, and that has nothing to do with the U.S.
If you read about Islamic (Sunni) terror groups in the 1990s, one thing is clear: they were against the West, not just Israel or the U.S. I read a book about a man who attended a terror training camp in 1995 in Afghanistan. He said, his terrorist friends rejoiced when bombs went off in Paris that year (I was in Paris at that time, so I remember it well). He then said, a cry went up that "Islam would soon retake France". Does that have anything to do with "anger over U.S. foreign poicy" ? Or is is blank hatred toward the West ? The reason that Sunni terror groups preach hate is that they want to kill anyone who is not an extremist Sunni like themselves. Of course, they use the excuse of "we want the U.S. out of the Mideast, but let's not delude ourselves that it would be a love-fest between them and us if the U.S. abandoned the airfields it has in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
I also read an article in the German press about two Al Quida terrorists who planned to attack churches in southwestern Germany, and Christmas fairs. These young men were going to bomb churches in Germany. Why ? Because they hate Christianity and anything that is not Sunni extremist Islam. Period. Let's not delude ourselves.
Regarding Saddam Hussein, if he was not a threat, as Ron Paul claims, then why did the Europeans constantly tell Clinton in the 1990s that Saddam would have to be removed ? Didn't Saddam fire SCUDs not only at Israel, but into Saudi Arabia ? If he was not a threat, why did the United Nations issue 17 resolutions calling for him to prove he had no WMD programs ? Do you think that the UN would go to all that trouble, if Saddam were no threat ? And the idea that a country that can't shoot down F18s and F15s is no threat to me shows a shocking lack of military and strategic knowledge. I think Iran would also have a hard time shooting down U.S. fighter jets, but does that mean that Iran is no threat ? Ron Paul obviously does not understand "asymetric warfare". And not to mention Saddam handing off a briefcase containing "god knows what", developed in some weapons lab. If Saddam had no WMDs, why didn't he just invite Hans Blix in and get done with it ?
Ditto Iran. Iran is attempting to become the dominant regional power in the gulf, and the U.S. is just in the way of that.
As I mentioned, a "non-interventionist" U.S. would be welcomed by everyone from Hugo Chavez to China, to Al Quida and Hezbollah, to Iran and North Korea and Russia, who are all too willing and glad to fill in the power vacuum left by abandoned American military bases.
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Summary: A book for everyone
Comment: This book will need no greater knowledge, about the subjects discussed, from the reader. Gives a great explantion to the reasons for the current mess in US politics, and uses history to explain why and what to do to stay out of the current trouble the US is in.
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Summary: Refreshing point of view
Comment: As an internet addict who reads far more than she should on internet news sites, I found this book refreshing. It made me realize just how much spin and filter is put on MSM articles and even articles by specialty blogs and publications. Many times the writers are using their facility with words to impress and dazzle their readership. Dr. Paul does none of this. He uses plain language and simple concepts that everyone can understand. His writing is truly a breath of fresh air.
As are his revolutionary ideas that are so incredibly "American" in character. This is borne out by the odd coalition of citizens getting behind his message - political and social adversaries from all walks of life are finding common ground. What an amazing miracle this is in an age of increasing polarization and division in American politics and life. I find this aspect of his message - that he can bring people together - highly energizing and hopeful.
Dr. Paul may now be too old to serve as president, but his ideas will challenge and inspire us for generations to come. They seem to be catching fire, not just in the US, but worldwide. Viva la r3VOLution!
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