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The coldblooded killing of the Charlie Hebdo staff by Islamist assassins in Paris has become a political Rorschach onto which people are projecting their own pet political causes. Take, for instance, the Pauls.
Former congressman and erstwhile presidential candidate Ron Paul offers a completely off-base analysis of the root cause of the episode. It is blowback for Western foreign policy adventurism, the libertarian-leaning Texan claims. Meanwhile, his son — Kentucky senator and 2016 presidential aspirant Rand Paul — proposes a totally wrongheaded solution: The West needs to rethink immigration from Muslim countries.
Neither one is doing his avowed commitment to the cause of freedom any good.
Ron Paul rose to political prominence by making opposition to the West's foreign policy interventionism his signature issue. So within days of the attack, he was off flogging this hobbyhorse, declaring — after obligatory condemnations — that the Hedbo attack was "retaliation" for French interventionism.
http://theweek.com/articles/533736/rand-paul-ron-paul-are-both-wrong-about-paris
Former congressman and erstwhile presidential candidate Ron Paul offers a completely off-base analysis of the root cause of the episode. It is blowback for Western foreign policy adventurism, the libertarian-leaning Texan claims. Meanwhile, his son — Kentucky senator and 2016 presidential aspirant Rand Paul — proposes a totally wrongheaded solution: The West needs to rethink immigration from Muslim countries.
Neither one is doing his avowed commitment to the cause of freedom any good.
Ron Paul rose to political prominence by making opposition to the West's foreign policy interventionism his signature issue. So within days of the attack, he was off flogging this hobbyhorse, declaring — after obligatory condemnations — that the Hedbo attack was "retaliation" for French interventionism.
http://theweek.com/articles/533736/rand-paul-ron-paul-are-both-wrong-about-paris