Syria

The Libertarian Angle: Trump’s “Withdrawal” from Syria (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation January 3, 2019

President Donald Trump has called for the withdrawal of the U.S. military from Syria. While libertarians should laud such a move, what is really going on here? Can we really expect the U.S. military to completely withdraw from an area of the Middle East that it has been trying to influence for so long? ...

Trump Is Right to Withdraw Troops from Syria

by Danny Sjursen December 20, 2018

If Afghanistan is America’s longest war, and Iraq it’s dumbest, well then Syria must rank as the nation’s forgotten, and, potentially most treacherous war.  Only you’d never know it. The big three television news networks hardly mention the U.S. military’s continued involvement there and national newspapers relegate the Syrian campaign to the deep recesses of their foreign policy sections. ...

The Libertarian Angle: Syria and the RPI/FFF Conference (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation April 17, 2018

Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the recent attack on Syria as well as our upcoming conference in Charleston, South Carolina with co-sponsors The Ron Paul Institute. Go to the podcast.

Syria Remains a Target of the U.S. Empire

by Tim Kelly October 1, 2013

A Russian diplomatic initiative has forestalled U.S. military strikes against Syria. The U.S.-Russian-Syrian agreement would have Bashar al-Assad’s regime turn over its chemical-weapons to the UN Security Council so that they can be destroyed under international control. The deal was proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made an apparently off-the-cuff remark suggesting that ...

TGIF: The People Say No to War

by Sheldon Richman September 13, 2013

The Constitution did not keep President Obama from attacking Syria. The people did. Think about that. Obama, his top advisers, and many of his partisans and opponents in Congress insist that the president of the United States has the constitutional authority to attack another country without a declaration of war or so-called “authorization for the use of military force” even ...

The Libertarian Angle: Syria and Foreign Interventionism

by Future of Freedom Foundation September 9, 2013

Jacob Hornberger and Sheldon Richman discuss Syria and U.S. foreign policy. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. You can find the podcast here.

The Libertarian Angle: Syria

by Future of Freedom Foundation September 4, 2013

Jacob Hornberger and Sheldon Richman discuss the Syria. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly.

TGIF: No Intervention in Syria

by Sheldon Richman May 10, 2013

If after the debacles in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya (dare I say Vietnam?) some people still want the U.S. government to intervene — further — in the war inside Syria (but fueled by outsiders), we must conclude, not that they can’t learn the lessons of recent history, but that they won’t because doing so would be contrary ...

U.S. Should Steer Clear of Syria

by Sheldon Richman June 1, 2012

We should be grateful that the Obama administration seems disinclined to intervene militarily in Syria. But let’s note that the administration has not kept hands off. In a variety of ways, it is already aiding the rebels. Moreover, White House spokesman Jay Carney says that all options — even military intervention — are on the table. Americans should ...