Ron Paul: 9/11 Attacks Were 'Blowback For Decades Of U.S. Intervention In The Middle East'

[jct74]

Ron Paul: 9/11 Attacks Were 'Blowback For Decades Of U.S. Intervention In The Middle East'

By Nick Wing
09/11/2013 9:39 pm EDT

Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) marked the anniversary of 9/11 on Wednesday with a renewed call against U.S. military intervention, saying that the terrorist attacks that took place 12 years ago were the consequences of American foreign policy.

Here's his Facebook post:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...=a.10150115112081686.277590.6233046685&type=1


Paul, a renowned anti-interventionist, has taken heat for similar claims in the past. In 2011, amid his presidential campaign, Paul took to cable TV to explain his belief that decades of U.S. engagements in the Middle East had triggered backlash in the form of terrorism.

“I think there's an influence,” Paul told CBS' “Face the Nation.” “That's exactly what the 9/11 Commission said. That's what the DoD has said. That's also what the CIA has said. That's what a lot of researchers have said.”

Paul continued: “To deny this I think is very dangerous but to argue the case that they want to do us harm because we're free and prosperous I think is a very, very dangerous notion because it's not true."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/11/ron-paul-911_n_3910391.html

 

[Christian Liberty]

Ron Paul deserves a million +reps.

 

[jct74]

Ron is getting attacked today in some conservative publications and on twitter for that facebook post and the tweet below, I won't link to any of the stories though, you can google it if you want to see it.

 

[jct74]

post on twitchy claims he is getting a lot of hate on twitter for his comments

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[fr33]

It shouldn't even be controversial. It's the same thing he's been saying since it happened. Heck, he was predicting it before it happened for the same reasons.

 

[Lucille]

Boobus was freaking out at hotair too. I guess they don't like their national holiday interrupted with any truth about it. They're ineducable dupes and tools.

http://non-intervention.com/556/the-14th-anniversary-of-a-war-we-refuse-to-understand/

In the 12-page treatise bin Laden announced al-Qaeda’s intention to wage war on the United States and summarized its motivation in six items:

–U.S. support for and protection of Arab police states

–U.S. presence on the Arabian Peninsula

–Unqualified U.S. support for Israel

–U.S. and Western exploitation of Muslim energy resources at below market prices

–U.S. support for other nations that oppress Muslims, especially Russia, China, and India.

–U.S. stationing of military forces in Muslim lands

From 1996 until today, bin Laden, al-Qaeda, their allies, and those they inspire have stood by this short list of motivations. A researcher would look long, hard, and ultimately futilely for any motivations that pivot off of such cultural issues as U.S. democracy, elections, civil liberties, gender equality, etc. To be sure, bin Laden made clear that Islamists were not at all interested in any of these cultural attributes for the Muslim world. But his prose likewise made clear that he knew almost no Muslims could be motivated to risk their lives and wage jihad because there is an early presidential primary in Iowa and women are welcomed into the U.S. workplace.

No U.S. political leader or mainstream media outlet has, since 1996, given any indication that bin Laden’s declaration has been read and and understood. Instead, both have preached to Americans that they are being attacked by Islamists because of the way we live and think here in North America. Americans also have been assured that the impact of Washington’s interventionist policies in the Islamic world plays no role in our attackers’ motivation. This, of course is bald lie, but our political and media leaders have stood by it for [17] years and counting.

 

[thoughtomator]

Let's be real. 9/11 was an inside job, not blowback.

 

[Warlord]

Ron sure knows how to stir controversy

 

[PSYOP]

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[A Son of Liberty]

post on twitchy claims he is getting a lot of hate on twitter for his comments

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That's right. Because nobody in this here country would get pissed at all if another country overtly meddled in our internal affairs. And when Americans started exacting revenge on that country, it would be because Americans hated them for their General Tso's Chicken, or kimchi, or fucking railway system that always ran on time.

I swear we're cohabiting with the cast of Idiocracy.

 

[thehungarian]

I have a whole slew of Republican types on my timeline and they were just about unanimously ripping Ron for this comment. A common one was "fuck you, Ron Paul," and the like. Very nuanced criticism.

Have you noticed they are more forceful in their language when they denounce Ron Paul than they are when they denounce over-seas tyrants. You don't see them saying "Fuck you" to Obama or even Assad or Putin. Delusional.