Posted on 01/07/2015 2:26:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Former Republican presidential candidate and congressman Ron Paul says bad foreign policy is to blame for the Paris terrorist attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that left at least 12 dead and 11 wounded.
“Well, you know, partially what the Secretary of State said is true — this is pretty obscene, when it comes to violence, and libertarians are pretty annoyed by anybody who initiates violence,” said Paul on NewsMaxTV’s Steve Malzberg Show Wednesday. “This is pretty bad.”
Paul said the context for the attack, however, was France’s involvement in the Middle East.
“But in the context of things, France has been a target for many, many years, because they’ve been involved in foreign affairs in Libya, and they really prodded us along in — recently in Libya, but they’ve been involved in Algeria, so they’ve had attacks like this, you know, not infrequently. So, it does involve, you know, their foreign policy as well. When people do this, you know, the rejection of the violence has to be made, and with that I agree.”
“I put blame on bad policy that we don’t fully understand, and we don’t understand what they’re doing because the people who are objecting to the foreign policy that we pursue, they do it from a different perspective,” Paul added. “They see us as attacking them, and killing innocent people, so yes, they, they have — this doesn’t justify, so don’t put those words in my mouth — it doesn’t justify, but it explains it.”
Paul said it was the West’s overall foreign policy which “invites retaliation.”
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Yeah, it's always that. "In the broad perspective," "Taking everything into account," "For the greater good," "With regard to a higher truth". In other words, my superior mind flies high above your petty everyday prejudices, such as that killing innocent people is wrong. Sell it to somebody stupid enough to buy it, Paul.
I’m sure criminals often blame police for oppression, thats why they commit crimes
:-)
Paul and his son can make sense on some topics.
But when it comes to national defense and foreign relations,
we could never trust them... and obviously still cannot. I tried to warm to his son for awhile but that fell apart when the boy made some remarks that raised serious question that maybe he is quite like his Dad on defense matters.
It is, IMHO, a shame that smart fellows have such a blind spot on the most important duties of WashDC leadership positions. The Pauls get Zero Votes here!
France’s real mistake was trying to annex Algeria into Metropolitan France and when that failed letting so many Muslims in.
the nutty acorn doesn’t fall far from the nutty tree.
Disgusting old man.
Foreign policy had jack**** to do with this attack, its a case of muslims following islam.
Paul is an idiot so is his son.
The original Rand [Ayn Rand] for whom Rand Paul was named had the maxim: it is always wrong to initiate violence, and it is equally wrong to let violence go unanswered. She did not have "being annoyed" in mind for what the answer should be.
The incredible, shrinking Ron Paul.
Yep. And violence in answer to violence is justified.
Dad, Dad, I’m feeling so bad
Mom’s hung you in the closet
And I’m feeling so sad!
Where is Mom?
“invites retaliation.”
I am going to POST that next to my banner:
DEATH BE BEFORE DISHONER
FUR&RP!
I want to see Ron Paul exercise with Harry Reid.
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