If this guy was any dumber you’d have to water him.
"And if we would stop convicting them, they wouldn't even be convicts! Once again, it's our fault!"
And women incite rapists by appearing outside without burkas.
Did anybody catch the interview where he said this? Because I want to verify this. Because...wow.
That's just stunningly ignorant.
The most dangerous aspect, of course, is the notion that this is all just a ‘law enforcement’ issue.
It’s a war, Ron.
‘Peace in our time” is still a bad idea.
We hear a lot now about how the effort has failed ... or we're done with our part .. or something like that ... but what would RP had done on 9/12 and following if he'd been CIC?
What the heck do some “conservatives” see in him???
He is scary stupid.
Actually, I don’t disagree with his assesment, I’ve said the same myself, however, when you can kill hundres of innocents at one blow, does it really make any difference what their motivation is?
“Hoodlums and convicts”, my eye. Why do most on the left and even some on the right dismiss the terrorist threat so easily? Thousands of ruthless, ingenuous terrorists are desperately trying to murder Americans - why is this a concern that just doesn’t rate for so many people?
You can find flaws in George Bush’s handling of the war on terror, but at least he’s willing to wage it. He has been serious about it. The more solitary he becomes in this, the more I appreciate him.
"We are getting aggravated."
"Yes, we are."
well, I think Paul is right. The only way to destroy the greatest nation on earth is to provoke us to destory ourselves. These thugs and criminals are incapable of doing it themselves.
And our foreign policy is not helping, supporting the Saudi criminals and Egyptian tyrants, plus, look at what is happening in Pakistan, 10 billion wasted to spread the military socialism and the money is spent against India and we expect terrorism to decrease? If I was a Pakistani citizen I would be upset over the support of the United States, financially and politically, to the criminal Musharaf who has thrown thousands of citizens and journalists and opposition leaders in jail and runs a socialistic military junta which is invested in most sectors of the economy with government imposed monopolies.
So, I think Paul is not so far off in his comments, in fact, I think he is correct.
The Paulites were out on threads earlier.
When the far left and fascist anti semites both suppport him as his anti war, anti Jewish, and 9/11 truthers (the gov. did it)propaganda fills his support sites.
Also L Ron Paul said he probably would not support the Republican nominee so:
Why are the L Ron Paul supporters allowed on Free Republic as they make Rudy seem like a pure conservative Republican.
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.
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?
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