It’s not the first time he’s gone complete bat guano insane, and one of the reasons why he will NEVER be the GOP presidential nominee
(The Hill) Ron Paul said that American policymakers were at least partially at fault for the country being attacked on 9/11 during a discussion of foreign policy on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday.
Paul argued that the American military presence in Saudi Arabia -rather than ideological differences or anger over American prosperity -were motivation for the September 11 hijackers.
“Just remember that immediately after 9/11, we removed the base in Saudi Arabia, our policies definitely had an influence,” Paul said. “To argue the case they want to do us harm because we’re free and prosperous I think is a very dangerous notion, because it’s not true.”
To some tiny degree, he has a point: Osama Bin Laden used the US presence in Saudi Arabia as a pretext for wanting to hate America and pushing his version of fundamentalist version of Islam. Most of the others in al Qaeda couldn’t have cared less, they just wanted to strike America and the West, pushing their version of Islam. That said, it doesn’t excuse a plot to attempt to kill 50k Americans. Paul uses this line of reasoning to blame America, as he’s dine many times. He won’t divorce himself from the 9/11 Truthers who support him, and his policies of blaming America and isolationism are plain idiotic.
If he’d learn to keep some of his inner monologue inside his head, he’d have a shot. He can’t, and he will never be the GOP nominee.
More: Smitty at The Other McCain writes:
Let me form my objection to Paul as a question: when should you ever take your enemy’s propaganda at face value? When they are Commies? Nazis? Radical Muslims waging explosive jihad?
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