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| The Revolution: A Manifesto | 
 enlarge | Author: Ron Paul
Creator: Bob Craig
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Category: Book
List Price: $24.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  725 reviews
Sales Rank: 19525
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 5
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Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 160024355X
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.931
EAN: 9781600243554
ASIN: 160024355X
Publication Date: April 30, 2008
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Wake Up People! November 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Facile foreign policy November 28, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
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.
A book for everyone November 27, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
Refreshing point of view November 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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!
 What a joy to read November 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There is not much I can say on Ron Paul, I know very little about him. This work was recommended to me by a friend. Before I would have dismissed Mr. Paul as a nut and I had no desire to read this book. I don't like reading political campaigning books. But I rarely turn down a recommendation
Mr. Paul takes a hard and honest look at our entire Government and what went wrong with it from every angle especially the Constitution. He takes us back to the time of the founding fathers and enters his opinion on what they might have meant when they wrote the Constitution and devised our system of government.
He also looks at the facts and where suggests where our Government should be doing to preserve these ideas that lead to the greatest document ever created by man. He shows how some people have pushed the document aside for their own gain. Perhaps because most Americans have never read the Constitution and we do not keep our government in check by firing those that abuse it.
He explains in detail what an executive order is and how it is supposed to be used by the president and how it has become distorted in its use (look at Bill Clinton, George Bush and now Barack Obama). Perhaps if everyone had a real education on history, Constitutional Law, Government and Civics, then people may understand what our government is really doing is wrong and what the Constitution is for.
Paul's understanding is based on understanding the founding fathers and understanding the documents they left behind which explains their theories on why our government was designed the way it. Most politicians, Paul says have ignored or misunderstood what they meant.
The suggestion is to perhaps get back to the original meaning of the document.
I highly recommend this book.
Enjoy
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