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Don’t Protect the Banks, Protect the People!

- Ron Paul -

You did not seem to like the length of my reply and yet you faulted me for having not been comprehensive. A list of other countries attacked beside the U.S. as a result of their foreign policy was not supplied in that it should have been inferred that such countries exist. The list i supplied was supposed to show that those countries that do not go poking their noses in where they are not wanted are in no danger. i mistakenly included Sweden on that list; having missed that a suicide bomber killed himself to protest that the country was going to send 500 troops to Afghanistan.

That the Taliban did their best to destroy the Bhudda at Bamiyan is of course very sad. But at least they were not killing anyone. Sad to say, it is the sort of thing religious fanatics have been doing for centuries all over the world. If it helps any, Islam forbids any such art. Had the statue been of their prophet or Osama bin Laden, they would have felt the same need to destroy it.

In terms of having bases in other countries, let us make a real life distinction in terms of where those are (over 120 countries) and more importantly, just how welcome they really are. Certainly there are places where American troops are welcome such as South Korea and so i would be astonished if some South Korean terror cell carried out an attack on the American homeland. But there are places where U.S. involvement is not wanted and that is all too obvious from all those soldiers coming home in body bags.

It is not the countries that America has been legitimately invited into that pose a problem to America's security. What Dr. Paul has been speaking about are the countries that did not invite America to send troops. As you will recall, Saddam Hussein did not ask the Americans to send the troops either time it did. Nor did Mullah Omar over in Afghanistan roll out the welcome wagon. But that did not stop the Americans. That could not endear them to the local populations. And then there were those awful pictures of prisoners being abused that made some folks upset. And stories of other prisoners being subjected to what was euphemistically called a harsh interrogation technique did nothing to salve the feelings of the subjugated populations, especially amongst those who knew that the Americans tried and executed Japanese soldiers for using the very same harsh interrogation technique on American soldiers during WWII. i could go on for quite a while with such items, but i will save you the trouble of reading it all. The point is that you cannot go meddling into affairs that are not your concern just because you have the most powerful armed forces the world has ever known without expecting to really rile up some folks and have them take a poke at you. It has happened time and time again and it will continue to go on. Some folks just refuse to learn from history.

As for it being radical Islam not allowing 'competition' for the souls of its people being the current evil of the world, you are partially correct. But how about radical Christianity attempting to block the construction of mosques in America? Do you suppose that is good for the competition you speak of, or evil? And take a look at youtube some time. There are crazies aplenty burning Korans, but i have not come across any Bible burners; though doubtlessly there is some loonie out there doing just that in some crazed tit for tat frenzy.

As difficult as it appears for you to understand, you must grasp that actions have consequences and the actions of America are not immune from having repucussions. The nature of the response is governed by the perception of the action by those affected (and still alive to talk about it) and their ability to respond.

Why is it that you have a compulsion to twist Dr. Paul's words around? Is it that they make sense, but being patriotic you cannot believe that America would actually do anything that others would object so strongly to and so you pretend that America was invited into Iraq and Afghanistan? They were not invited. They were warned that there would be consequences if they did not leave. They did not leave. There were consequences. Simple a follows b. If you do not get it by now, i fear you never will.

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