Raped Like a Street Walker

Posted by Eric F. Langborgh on 19 Jul 2007 at 09:47 am

In my conversations with fellow conservatives about the candidacy of Ron Paul for President of the United States of America, so many of them can’t get over their mistaken assumption that Dr. Paul is somehow blaming America for 9/11/01.  Their reference point is the now famous exchange he had with Rudy Giuliani in an earlier debate, in which Paul argued against an interventionist foreign policy by explaining that our bombings of Iraq for ten years helped lead to the terrorist attacks on our country.  This statement, Rudy and these other conservatives say, amounts to blaming America.

I have responded that these folks need to get beyond their shallow Sean Hannity-like interpretation of Paul’s remarks in the debate and do a bit more research — and then maybe they would come to recognize that Dr. Paul was simply saying that our interventionist policies help provide fodder for Bin Laden’s recruiting efforts.  I have already posted at this here blog Ron Paul’s explanation how this is just not so, and the testimony of the leading expert on terrorism and Osama Bin Laden that corroborates Dr. Paul’s point. 

But let me explain it this way for those who still insist that Ron Paul is blaming America for the attacks on our land.  My answer to these folks is this:  You can insist that if you like, but it would be true only in the sense that a scantily clad girl walking down a dark alley is responsible for her rape. And that would be flat out wrong. The rapist is to blame.

But the girl should have acted more wisely.

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