I call it as I see it. Ron Paul does blame America for the War on Terror. He claims that if Americans weren’t over there that they wouldn’t have attacked us. He is a Code Pink type of politician. He is not someone who upholds the spirit of the Founders but is a pretender.
The TEA party is not at all about creating a weak National Security or about spouting propaganda blaming America in the war on terror. It is about returning to a strong America built upon rugged individualism, limited government, adherence to the Constitution and a strong National defense.
There are a lot of things that are different now, and one that has gone by almost unnoticed--but it's huge--is that by complete mutual agreement between the U.S. and the Saudi government we can now remove almost all of our forces from 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.