From Uncle Sam... To Uncle Sham

Topping my list of recommended reads this morning is LewRockwell.com, where the top article is by Ron Paul, and is the text of his Statement before the Foreign Affairs Committee, United States House of Representatives, December 10, 2009. It is titled:

Time to Leave Afghanistan

At least one politician in the USSA loves the USA. Ron Paul is a Misesian. He is also waging a winnable war against The Fed.

About this monster, the must read is the second article on LRC this morning, an interview with Peter Schiff on gold and the US dollar. Schiff is running for Senate now, and is slated to win. He runs an investment company and predicted the current financial crisis as far back as 2006. He predicts gold will soon hit $5000 and the dollar will lose value concomitantly.

So Uncle Sam better wake up: They don’t have the money to wage wars and prop up client regimes. And it goes to show that our very own Uncle Sham aka Chacha must seriously re-think his “diplomacy” – whatever rocket-science that is. Ron Paul sees “non-interference” as the corner-stone of his foreign policy. We should too – and get out of Afghanistan ourselves.

One reason to do that is the burden on the Exchequer, but the more important reason is that there are great big fires burning all over the vast territory. Here is the Chief Justice saying India needs 35,000 courts. And a complete reform of The Law, I would add, because legislation increases litigation – to the benefit of lawyers. They, too, are a vested interest, a "self-regulating profession," and only they become judges, and only they teach The Law.

On Telangana, Meghnad Desai’s column reveals the “politics” behind the scenes. Well worth a read.