He did try very hard to back track to saying it as an explanation.
I ain’t buyin’ what you and he are sellin’ here.
As if there is a good excuse to destroy a billion dollars worth of infrastructure and target tens of thousands of innocents for deliberate murder.
(Except for the 72 virgins, and 18 'young boys like pearls', of course)...
Ron didn't say they had "a good excuse". That's just putting words in his mouth.
He said that they had motives (as do most Murderers) which could be rationally examined (which is what Detectives do) -- they didn't just wake up one morning and decide to hijack some airliners 'cause their favorite nightclub closed early the night before.
As if there is a good excuse to destroy a billion dollars worth of infrastructure and target tens of thousands of innocents for deliberate murder.
Well then, if you "ain't buying" what Ron Paul is selling you must really be upset at that notorious "blame America" fellow Paul Wolfowitz who said pretty much the same thing. Wolfy stated that the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia had been "a huge recruiting device" for Al Qaeda. Here are Wolfy's comments in full:
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. I think just lifting that burden from the Saudis is itself going to open the door to other positive things.