Posted on 11/24/2007 5:42:59 PM PST by Lovebloggers
Terrorists `Just Hoodlums’
The greatest threat to the nation, Paul said, is an overextension of the U.S. military and ``involvement in places we shouldn’t be.’’ Terrorism shouldn’t be fought by waging war on nations, he said. Terrorists are ``just hoodlums and convicts, so to speak, but we incite them with our foreign policy,’’ he said.
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Right. ...religious fanatics that hijack airlines and fly them into buildings and are dedicated to killing as many "infidels" as possible are essentially the same as small-time criminals who hold up liquor stores and sell crack on street corner? No difference at all, right RP? "..but we incite them with our foreign policy,"
No, we our very existence incites them. ...as does the existence of all non-Muslims. This whole blame America first crap is getting real old.
Right. ...religious fanatics that hijack airlines and fly them into buildings and are dedicated to killing as many "infidels" as possible are essentially the same as small-time criminals who hold up liquor stores and sell crack on street corner? No difference at all, right RP?
"..but we incite them with our foreign policy,"
No, we our very existence incites them. ...as does the existence of all non-Muslims. This whole blame America first crap is getting real old.
The Doolittle Raid no doubt incited some Japanese.
Wow.
Even with the help of Fifth Columnists like Ron?
Well actually we “incite” them with out culture which is found all over the planet whether we like it or not. Our movies, music, capitalism and even elected government is an afront to their world view. Troops or no troops, foreign policy or no foreign policy all of these things that outrage these people would still be “threatening” their populations. Because it is the ideas, the information that is the threat. It subverts their women and children from the straight and narrow of their religion...
We are the "Great Satan" because we are the center of this cultural change towards freedom and person expression - for better and for worse.
So Paul is dead wrong. There will peace only if they succeed at stopping our culture from polluting their world or we stop them where they are before they get here to kill more of us.
Oh Paulettes WHERE ARE YOU?
you made me laugh....which is rather impressive as my son is refusing to vacate my womb, even though it is high time he did so.
But it does concern me how many people are behind this dude.In some ways, I can’t wait for the primaries to start to he can get knocked off the map.
Cong. Paul is also a physician, so he, like Dr. Howard Dean of the Democrat Party are not dumb. However, Cong/Dr. Paul’s comment is just ignorant and dangerous based on the facts of Jihadist ideology and this is exactly where I part company with the Libertarians that Paul is strongly connected to.
Jihadists do not live to enjoy voluntary exchange and the fruits of the division of labor. They do not seek to live in a non-coercive society. Indeed, **they reject such ideas** as ideas of the infidel, and would seek to use whatever force necessary to replace the free market, especially the free market in ideas, with the will of Ummah under Sharia.
Dr. Paul, and those who think like he does (that jihadists fight the west only because Bush invaded Iraq) ought to spend some time reading Osama bin Laden’s own words as to why he, and his supporters, struck the US on 9/11/2001. But he also ought to recall the words of the Marine hymn, “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli...” because this is a direct reference to the US attack on the Barbary Pirates, who were jihadist Muslims who were attacking and enslaving our sailors in the late 1700’s.
Indeed, we are now seeing stunning scholarship about the millions of Africans and Europeans who were enslaved by Muslims and who still practice slavery.
The future course is clear: the world is on a collision course. Some future battle will settle humanity’s biggest question: will Islam be successfully resisted by the non-Islamic nations?
This is not a liberty issue. This is a fundamental battle against an ideology that insists on forcing every non-believer to answer the Three Demands: convert, submit, or die. Mere “hoodlums and convicts” do not make such demands. The only person who is qualified to be President until this matter is settled, will be one who understands how serious this conflict really is.
see:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1654140/posts
Oh dear that picture of Dr Paul makes me sad, he looks so exhausted and used up. He really is a fine man and a good doctor.
No sane country, that's for certain. But when nukes are in the possession of national leaders who believe in stuff like "the returning 12th Imam" and receiving heavenly virgins for killing infidels then we've got a big problem. Obviously we'd win any such war, but at what cost? ...a few major U.S. cities? That's why we can't allow nuclear proliferation in the Muslim world.
What Ron Paul needs to get elected is to get stomped on by a strikeforce of skinheads.
Damn, just damn...
Let’s not and see what happens.
Maybe we can transplant him somewhere...
I think human nature is no different in the middle east than anywhere else, the leaders use ideology and hate to control the masses and keep their power, they likely don’t really believe in the junk they spew, and the last thing they want to do is risk loosing their power and lives (they are cowards) in a war, nuclear or otherwise with the United States, IMO.
Even believing that’s true - how can you be sure they wouldn’t aid al-Qaeda in their war against America? That is the other risk of these America-hating nations acquiring WMD. They may not be willing to strike the U.S.; they may be willing to give al-Qaeda the weapons, and let them do it.
“Terrorists `Just Hoodlums’ “
Hey. I’m deeply offended.
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