You know, every time we talk presidential politics on CMR, somebody will send us an email or write a comment about ALL Catholics should be supporting Ron Paul.
There are so many reasons why I could never, would never, support Ron Paul.
Here is reason #372. He blames the US for 9/11. Repeatedly. (Des Moines Register via Gateway)
Two weeks away from the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, presidential candidate and Texas Rep. Ron Paul says that U.S. intervention in the Middle East is a main motivation behind terrorist hostilities toward America, and that Islam is not a threat to the nation.At a campaign stop on Saturday in Winterset, one man asked Paul how terrorist groups would react if the U.S. removed its military presence in Middle Eastern nations, a move the candidate advocates.
“Which enemy are you worried that will attack our national security?” Paul asked.
“If you’re looking for specifics, I’m talking about Islam. Radical Islam,” the man answered.
“I don’t see Islam as our enemy,” Paul said. “I see that motivation is occupation and those who hate us and would like to kill us, they are motivated by our invasion of their land, the support of their dictators that they hate.”
Regarding 9/11, Paul said that attacks against the U.S. from Middle Eastern groups at home and abroad can be traced to the foreign presence of U.S. troops, as well as America’s relationships with dictator regimes.
America is certainly not sinless, don’t get me wrong. But to blame America, for inciting 9/11 is so wrongheaded it is scary. Ron Paul is an Idiot.
August 30, 2011 at 11:38 pm
Horrible post. You really blew it on this one. And I'm not saying that because I'm an avid Ron Paul supporter. I'm saying it because you are clearly so blinded by a conservative mentality that supports endless wars (that we can't afford by the way) that you can't see the truth.
Do you really believe that we can be fighting wars and establishing a military presence in all of these nations and not incite at least resentment against our own? What if China had a military presence in our nation? What if they expelled our validly elected President and set up the President of their choice (though under Obama I might be in favor of this proposition…)? How do you think we'd feel?
You ever call anyone an idiot again, and I will stop reading.
Good day, sir.
August 30, 2011 at 11:39 pm
I think the author of this post should have to make a public retraction.
August 31, 2011 at 4:25 am
This is an embarrassing post by the author of this blog. I usually am in step with nearly everything that is said hear- but this is absurd.
1) In all things – Charity. Calling someone an "Idiot" is not civil discourse. Deconstructing their positions is.
2) Mr. Paul's foreign policy positions supports a certain school of thought called non-interventionism. One of the tenets of this is to avoid a consequence of interventionism, which is, something called "blowback". Blowback is what Mr. Paul would say 9/11, Embassy bombings, was, due to the result of US Interventionism in the Middle East for many years.
It actually does make sense. It may not be a realistic foreign policy per say, but to call someone an idiot is not appropriate in discussing policies, nor is it Christian.
August 31, 2011 at 4:48 am
The problem with always expressing your opinion (and having people read it on a regular basis) is that you think your opinion is always right. I think the author of this post has fallen victim to that particular kind of hubris that leads him to believe that he can say whatever he wants without actually debating the merits of a man's policy. It's a forgivable offense, because I think he was just getting carried away and did not intend harm (he was probably actually responding to a very real challenge to his views by the ones who have sent him emails, whom he mentioned in his post). But he ought to apologize none the less and retract his statements, even if only to reformulate them in a manner more suiting a mature, adult, public person who expresses his views for the BENEFIT of others, and not for their scandal.
Whoever wrote this article ought to retract this article, apologize, and, if he sees fit, reformulate his ideas to be discussed in a more appropriate and Christian way. Otherwise, he stands to lose a lot of readers, not to mention credibility.
August 31, 2011 at 7:29 pm
God, most of YOU are the IDIOTS. Stating "facts" without extensive knowledge makes you look like an idiot. YOUR opinions are not true, and neither are "facts" that you get from biased sources such as most of the main-stream media. Ron Paul DOES NOT want to legalize hard-core drug use. He wants to decentralize the government and give the power to the states. If a STATE wants to legalize a drug, that's the state's decision. THIS DOES NOT MEAN HE WANTS DRUGS LEGALIZED! Why can't you idiots get this through your heads?
The same on his stand for foreign policy. He says we should not be BOMBING other countries, or sending ECONOMIC HITMEN to enslave them through loans for their resources, and if they fight back send American troops to pay with their lives so the rich get richer…This does not MEAN that he wants us to get attacked by ISLAM you morons!
Wow…25% of the problem with politics is politicians. The other 75% is the ignorant, uninformed, and BRAINWASHED IDIOTS like the majority today that don't check facts, don't do research, and worst of all, take someone else's CONCLUSION as their own without proper logical filtering…
You WANT FREEDOM, THEN FIGHT FOR IT.
“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
— Benjamin Franklin
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
— Thomas Jefferson
September 1, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Articles like this and many of the responses they receive always drive home how popular this site is for neo-cons. Might as well break out a bottle and celebrate right now over the next, yet another neo-con candidate the Repubs will undoubtedly put forward as always due to attitudes like many of these.