Patricia, Ron Paul got one thing right: we could have avoided 9/11 if we had been willing to pay the price. President Bush wasn’t. Giuliani won’t, and hasn’t been. He’d rather scan the Internet traffic between you and me than deport the root cause of terrorism in our country: Islamic visitors and immigrants. When one takes a solemn moment to consider that, one becomes very sober. Ron Paul is a classic isolationist. I take issue with that. But I respect his skepticism about the Bush legacy.
Ron Paul got one thing wrong.
If Jimmy Carter had stood by the Shah of Iran, and continued our previous meddling in the Middle East, we would not have been attacked on 9/11.