May 15, 2007
Debate: Ron Paul
He thinks 9-11 was our fault, that America provoked the terrorists.
Disgusting, appalling, and Giuliani jumped on it, demanding a retraction.
Jim Geraghty finds himself wanting to check out the New Yorker's footwear.
I want to see Rudy’s shoe. Yup, I want him to show all of us his shoe. Why, you ask? Because I’ve never seen a candidate put his foot up another candidate’s tushie the way he did to Ron Paul tonight.
What a creep; with his blame-America-first mentality, Paul oughta be running for the Democratic nomination.
Posted by Mike Lief at May 15, 2007 08:25 PM
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If the United States had the same foreign policy in 2001 that it had in 1913, the 9/11 attacks would not have happened.
Are you saying that the Presidents who directed our pre-Wilson foreign policy blamed America first?
Posted by: Fluffy at May 15, 2007 08:52 PM
U.S. foreign policy: 2001, 1913, 9/11?
I don't -- to put it mildly -- follow.
Posted by: Mike Lief at May 15, 2007 09:00 PM
What RP was saying was the attacks of 9/11 were "blowback" from the stupid US policy of intervention in the affairs of other nations. Who says? Osama bin-Laden says. In his 1998 fatwa, bin-Laden gave the reasons why it is OK for Muslims to kill Americans - the presence of US troops in the middle east. So, he was right. And as he's said so many times before and a point that so many of today's GOPers forget is that that is the historic Republican position. A position of non-intervention. If everyone remembered that, true conservative statements like what RP made wouldn't be so shocking. We have a short memory.
Posted by: John at May 15, 2007 09:13 PM
Oh, I see, because Bin Laden says so in his 1998 fatwa.
So, what was the rationale for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing?
You also ignore the fact that Bin Laden and his ilk were emboldened by our retreat from Somalia, that our perceived unwillingness to spend American blood and treasure in pursuit of our own interests revealed us to them as nothing more than a decadent paper tiger.
But let's set aside your opinion that America got what it deserved for its foreign policy.
What do you think we ought to do now?
Do you believe that the jihadis will leave us alone if we retreat to Festung America?
Posted by: Mike Lief at May 15, 2007 09:26 PM
The Iraq war was launched and is currently being supported by fools. I consider myself to be conservative. I hate George W. Bush and his foreign policy madness with every fiber of my being.
This quagmire in Iraq was a fool's roll of the dice. It was Bush's attempt to remake the Middle East in our own image. Only a fool would think that this was possible.
Posted by: Sid at May 15, 2007 10:11 PM
Ron Paul is an idiot. Read of Thomas Jefferson's experience with the islamic barbary pirates as detailed by Christopher Hitchens. It's the same war, they've never quit, ask General Pershing on his Phillipine experience. Ron Paul doesn't understand this and uses Al Qaeda talking points for his speeches.
Ron Paul would also set our economy back 100 years, using the failed gold standard.
I hope he was a better doctor than politician. Otherwise, there'd be warrants out for his arrest.
Posted by: Judge at May 17, 2007 08:33 PM