More of L Ron Pauls views
Ron Paul excused Al-Qaeda’s attacks on America: In the single most repulsive moment of the entire Presidential race so far, Ron Paul excused Al-Qaeda’s attack on American with this comment about 9/11,
“They attack us because we’ve been over there. We’ve been bombing Iraq for 10 years.” In other words, America deserved to be attacked by Al-Qaeda.
This is the sort of facile comment you’d expect to hear from an America-hating left winger like Michael Moore or Noam Chomsky, not from a Republican running for President — or from any Republican in office for that matter. If you want to truly realize how foolish that sort of thinking is, imagine what the reaction would be if we had bombed Egyptian or Indonesian civilians after 9/11 and then justified it by saying “We attacked them because those Muslims have been over here.”
No, it's explaining why it happened. I don't read this statement as assigning blame. For instance, I could also say that Germany invaded Czechoslovakia because it possessed the Sudetenland. That's not saying that Czechoslovakia was at fault for Germany's invasion, it's just stating why it happened.