Ron Paul has given us plenty of entertainment throughout the years, and his farewell rally speech was no exception. BuzzFeed reports that Paul continued to spout his “chickens coming home to roost” theory about the Sept. 11 attacks at his alternative convention event yesterday:
That blowback theory is so convenient. If Israel created Hamas and the U.S. invited the 9/11 attacks, then world peace is within grasp, if only we could get over our own “hubris.”
In other words: cutting off our allies when the going gets tough, and ignoring threats as they metastasize globally — all the while, hoping that our enemies return our courtesy and leave us alone.
As a side note, did you ever notice that Paul fans only seem to use blowback to explain acts of Islamic terrorism? The U.S. has bases in 38 countries, yet you never hear about terror attacks from the Bulgarians, the Singaporeans or the Portuguese. If our bases are supposed to be so threatening, why aren’t others rising up against them?
Maybe it has to do with the fact that our enemies are radical Islamists who don’t really need much of an excuse to kill capitalist infidels. Rudy Giuliani said it best when he shot down Ron Paul’s nutty theories during the 2008 GOP primaries:
If only the ideas and ideals he spawned would take a vacations too, huh? Good luck with that!
Deranged communo-pravoslavny trash, beholden to Putin and Ahmadi-Nejad, brainless ass.
If Ron Paul is as “Cooky” as everyone says, then why does he have the most military support than any other candidate?
Because he and you are making this up.
It disgusts me that Rand Paul is considered a rising power. n nI vividly recall him pointedly sitting in his office and refusing to attend Netanyahu's address to Congress. n nApple/tree . . .
I think Ron Paul and his son are probably not very fond of Jews and Blacks. But Ron did serve his Country, and I don't think very many Americans would be disturbed by his speech. n nMy willingness to tangle with the "irrationality" in the ME ended with GW's presidency. n nRomney's vague FP pronouncements give me hope that he will take what's worthy from the Bush Doctrine and wed that to a more intelligent grasp of the possibilities on the ground. n nOne of your regular posters so often bemoans the degradation of Americans who elected Obama and not McCain. As if electing a POW carries no intellectual or spiritual downside. As if we were ever a Nation that believed in war by the decade(s). As if we ever supported financial and moral destabilization caused by the shifting rationale of pre-emptive wars. n nI love General Giuliani but he didn't lay a glove on Paul, unless indignation can be considered a connecting right hook.
We have poured military aid into the Middle east. We pour 4 times the military aid to countries that are not Israel as compared to what we give Israel. n nIf we quit driving a foreign policy driven by oil interests in the Middle East, as Paul has said we should, then we would not have been the target of fundamentalists. That 's what he said, and it is true. n nWhy is it we teach our kids not to hit each other? Why is violence not the answer for kids, but exactly the answer to resolve grownup issues?
"We have poured military aid into the Middle east. We pour 4 times the military aid to countries that are not Israel as compared to what we give Israel. n nso they'll recognize israel. n n n n
It's a lie. The Islamist's kill people they hate. America here. Israel there. Or Coptic Christians. Or Alawite Shia in Syria. All these corpses are not the result of "blowback". Evil exists. If you teach your kids pacifism you get the quiet and nonviolent slavery and the end of all your liberties.
'Paul and Son'. No there's a company founded on nuts. The fact that they are randomly and occasionally correct only affirms their basic character-Nuts. But dangerous nuts.
It's amazing how man people comment on an rp posting.not shocking though
A lot of the Dems though, if not Obama, and only theoretically if not Obama, buy the "blowback" theory. Hence the endless resets, apologies, and faux negotiations.
The reasons we should have left Iraq alone are many. Among them are the terrible costs we've borne, in both lives lost and ruined, and because of how our economy has suffered as a result of Bush policies. Surely, there was no compelling reason to invade and occupy Iraq, the way there was Afghanistan. n nWho cares what Ron Paul said back in 2008, or what he says now, or whether he, his son and "all the other little Pauls" hate Jews or not? What counts is that our former president, George W. Bush, was ill-suited for the job he was elected to perform, and that mistake—by us, the voters who elected him—has endangered the future of our nation. It was Bush's ineptness and mismanagement that bankrupted us, and it was his 20% approval rating that resulted in Barack Obama! n nWe were fools to invade Iraq, and we'll be damned lucky to recover from the damage that war did to our nation. Is what Ron Paul claimed re: the advice of the Founders accurate? Did they counsel against an overreaching foreign policy? We all know they did, so why argue about it! Ron Paul is an irrelevancy, but in this case he has a point—what did invading Iraq have to do with 9/11? And look at the mess today in Afghanistan, where we should have focused our military's efforts, made short work of bin Laden and then pounded al Qaeda and the Taliban into extinction—as payback for 9/11. n But George Bush had grand ideas, including the one about bringing democracy to the Arabs. n nSo forget Ron Paul! The truth is plain as day. We've made a lot of mistakes, including electing Obama. The job now is to clean up our mess, starting with Obama.
Ron Paul’s 9/11 theory is just blame the victim writ large. Just as the victim of rape is somehow to blame for being human and not perfect, the victims of terrorism are to blame for not believing or living as the terrorist feels proper.
One of the creepiest things abut Rona Paul is the creepiness of his followers.
Sure. 9//11 trutherism is the central core of the Constitution.