Rep. Ron Paul, however, is quick to emphasize that he is not placing blame on America.
Rep. Ron Paul has said what many honest, reasonable people have long understood, or come to terms with in the years since 9/11: U.S. foreign policy in part led to the causes of 9/11.
In a CBS “Face the Nation” interview, Paul stated that U.S. policies “have an effect” on American perception abroad.
“You talk to the people who committed it and those individuals who would like to do us harm, they say, ‘Yes, we don’t like American bombs to be falling on our country. We don’t like the intervention that we do in their nations.’ So to deny this, I think, is very dangerous – but to argue the case that they want to do us harm because we’re free and prosperous, I think, is a very, very dangerous notion because it’s not true.”
Paul elaborated when Schieffer miscontrued his words. “America is you and I… We didn’t cause it. The average American didn’t cause it. [But] if you have a flawed policy, it may influence it.”
One might not agree with everything Ron Paul argues for—such as a return to the gold standard, or allowing private banks to control the student loan racket, or that deregulated capitalism is to be desired—and one doesn’t even have to feel compelled to vote for the man, but on this particular issue, Paul’s analysis is crystalline and his will to state the truth quite admirable.
How many other politicians are willing to admit this truth?
November 21, 2011 at 5:51 pm, Tim Cavanaugh said:
ron paul is 100 percent correct! what kind of fantasy world do some people live in where they cant comprehend that killing their people,and bombing their land, wont instill hatred towards us?
November 21, 2011 at 5:55 pm, Anonymous said:
Bob Schieffer had to carry water for the establishment. He tried to box Paul in so he could get a sound bite out of Paul that CBS could abuse Paul with. Paul was having none of it. Schieffer failed.
In this instance, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz agrees with Ron Paul:
“There are a lot of things that are different now, and one that has gone by almost unnoticed–but it’s huge–is that by complete mutual agreement between the U.S. and the Saudi government we can now remove almost all of our forces from Saudi Arabia.
“Their presence there over the last 12 years has been a source of enormous difficulty for a friendly government. It’s been a huge recruiting device for al Qaeda. In fact if you look at bin Laden, one of his principle grievances was the presence of so-called crusader forces on the holy land, Mecca and Medina.”
Source: Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz Interview with Sam Tannenhaus, Vanity Fair (09 May 2003)
November 21, 2011 at 7:08 pm, MattJones said:
RIGHT AS USUAL!!!
November 22, 2011 at 4:48 am, Pjones Mac said:
I love it when those that were in agreement that Dr Paul was crazy, come around and act as if they’ve been with him all along. It is an eye opening experience for them and you can see it on their faces when the light bulb comes on. For me, I just shake my head and think how we could be much closer to being out of this mess has the light come on in ’07-’08. As the saying go… behind every great man, there is a woman shaking her head… When they come around, I shake my head in disbelief it took so long.
November 22, 2011 at 5:30 am, Sam Geoghegan said:
‘deregulated capitalism’ ?
America is corporate-socialist, capitalism does not exist. I’ll forgive your economic ignorance here because you supported Paul.
November 22, 2011 at 8:47 am, Therustyaugers said:
Sorry but it is not socialism. It is not capitalism. Quit throwing socialism around like you know what it means. It is “Third Way”. A corrupt mix of government and market that feed off each other!
November 23, 2011 at 8:16 pm, Nelson said:
“One might not agree with everything Ron Paul argues for—such as a return
to the gold standard, or allowing private banks to control the student
loan racket, or that deregulated capitalism is to be desired…”
Correction, DJ. Current student loan racket is BEING SUBSIDIZED BY Fed.Govt, FOR PRIVATE BANKS.
This is an oft repeated statist canard that we seem to be going around in circles.
For you to see the larger picture, one truly needs to study the origins of Federal Reserve, who formed the private banking cartel parading around as a gvt entity, how they hand out zero interest ‘loans’ which aren’t loans but more grants, as they charge YOU, yes YOU, the citizenry 10% EVERY SINGLE TIME a DOLLAR is created. Once you ‘get’ that, you may want to ask, WHY would ‘higher learning’ centers be party to a corporatist racket that ensures a financially naive 18yr old to subject him/herself into a debt-slavery. Because the banking system NEEDS its customers *cough* subjects *cough* to get into a credit based economy, & NOT learn to SAVE.
Your tuition is high BECAUSE gvt essentially ‘pre-pays’ PRIVATE/public colleges based on headcount. Since they have an incentive to get paid more by govt, their focus becomes admission numbers & higher administrative costs, NOT education, NOT higher quality teachers, NOT educational/research resources, EXCEPT those that pertain to DHS & DoD/DARPA projects.
Thus, like the corporatist ‘healthcare’ system, you are charged TWICE: once by taxes, second by fees at the place of business. The HMO’s are already guaranteed to be paid by gvt, thus anything they FORCE your doctor to charge you, is a premium, aka PURE profit to them. Thus they have NO INCENTIVE to charge you less.
Same for colleges.
Are we seeing the picture yet?
Monopolies DO NOT & CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT Govt GUARANTEEING their existence.
Same for the Military Industrial Complex & all other “Big____” whatever.
Plus for all you health conscious liberals, you may want to delve into WHY America has BigBox chainstores & industrial corporatist farming to begin with: FDR.
It was FDR admin’s motto, “Get Big, or Get OUT!” Then came subsidies to corn, rice, wheat, Tyson chicken, Monsanto, ConAgra, ADM, etc, etc, etc. Your own political god sowed the seeds of the American Republic’s destruction.
It’s high time for BOTH neoCONs AND liberals/socialists to awaken from their high school indoctrinated world-view. I’d highly recommend one starts their awakening by reading two very short treatises:
1. Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson
2. Frederic Bastiat’s The Law
then, start connecting the dots & truly learn to discern TRUE cause vs. effect relationship, admit that regurgitating ‘informed’ opinions of one’s favorite authors/bloggers as one’s own, do not constitute true knowledge nor comprehension of it. Then truly deconstruct WHAT gvt proclaims a program/law/statues/regulatory legalese to be, vs. what it ACTUALLY is/does & its true effectiveness of what its supposedly intended goal is. Though truthfully, any time ANY issue regarding ANYTHING govt comes up, there’s really only ONE question one NEEDS to answer honestly: DOES the US Constitution AUTHORIZE it? IF NOT, no matter how ell intentioned, it’s moot. Otherwise, why bother having a written document at all, if it changes w/popular prevailing political winds? & if your answer is Supremacy/Commerce/Necessary & Proper Clause, you need to actually READ the conditional part in ALL those clauses: “in pursuance thereof the Constitution,” along with distinguishing what “General Welfare” is vs. selective welfare. Healthcare & Educations are NOT a “right.” You HAVE a right to PURSUE, but Fed.Gvt does not & should not have a right to STEAL your neighbor’s money at gunpoint (yes, you risk DEATH anytime you resist ANY arbitrary govt commissars’ dictates: try resisting IRS for withholding your incometax as an antiwar protest, or hell, even a speeding ticket), no matter how “good” the intention is. IF you approve such nonsense, you are actively embuing an entity the legal principle it can do everything else, as long as they make the excuse that it’s for some nebulus “collective good.”
Next time you hear the collectivist propaganda called “collective good” or the “greater good” just remember Stalin, Hitler, & Mao decided that it was a “collective good” to industrially, systematically rid the world of “undesirables.” “Undesirable” being what they decided it to be. They equally ‘legally’ justified it all with trials & eloquently written legalese. Hm… now where is that being exercised more & more today, I wonder…
November 26, 2011 at 12:23 am, Klaus Vorman said:
Ron Paul in 2012, for a better America in our lifetime.
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