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Don’t Protect the Banks, Protect the People!

- Ron Paul -

Jim, i think you are a bit too harsh in your criticism of Dr. Paul. i believe he can be forgiven for having not been present to vote on NDAA given that he was otherwise occupied with rather important business of his own. It is not like he did not make his views well known and it was never going to be a case of his being the deciding vote on the bill.

More to the point (and this i write as someone who is not American) there is an awful lot of truth in what he says about the 9/11 attacks. As much as we may despise those who actually carried out the attacks, it is not good enough to merely believe that they were the acts of lunatics, or people who hate America because of her freedom. Afterall, attacks were not carried out in New Zealand, Sweden or Switzerland and all of those nations enjoy a comparable level of freedom. And so we must ask ourselves why America and not those places? For an answer we need look no further than to those who planned the attacks. They were most forthcoming with their reasons. The chief reason given was American foreign policy. For some crazy reason they did not want American troops to be stationed in their countries; in many cases supporting corrupt dictators who suppressed the aspirations of the people, often brutally. And that sort of reasoning is neither new nor hard to grasp. Those that are perceived to be occupiers of our lands or the hired muscle brought in to maintain a system that stiffles our very freedoms and makes a mockery of our dignity are never welcomed by the populace. Did not the Yemenis hate the Saudis who came streaming across the border in tanks at the invitation of Saleh, in a desperate measure to keep him in power? Of course they did. And did the Afghans welcome the Soviets into their country with open arms? Well, i guess their president of that time did, but the population had a very different response. And just ask yourself this wildly hypothetical question: Should there come a time in the future when some very unpopular president invites the Chinese or Russians to station their troops on American soil, free not to obey American laws, all in an effort to keep him or herself in power, would you come to resent their presence? And if they had been there for 50 years already and showed no inclination to leave, might that not upset you? i suspect it would. And i further suspect that even if you, yourself, were not willing to try and do something about it, you might well understand what motivated one of your neighbors to do so and you might even be cheered by the news that they had struck a blow for liberty.

So then, there really is some truth in what Dr. Paul has to say about the reasons behind the 9/11 attacks. As it were, you can only poke someone in the eye with a stick for so long before they realize that asking you to cease and desist nicely can only be their strategy for so long and no longer before other options need to be explored. And i strongly suspect that were America to adopt the sort of foreign policy advocated by Dr. Paul, it would soon enough have no reason to fear attack from abroad, having removed the irritant.

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