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Originally posted by Bamafan_in_WTexas:
I am only 5 minutes into the Ron PAul South Carolina debate. What was it that made you change your mind? Just curious.

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Originally posted by Bamafan_in_WTexas:
I have never cared for isolationism, either. But IMHO, I think he was talking about non-interventionism which I also do not believe in. I was a huge supporter of the liberation of Kuwait and the invasion of Afghanistan. But I did not support the invasion of Iraq but believe now that we are there we need to see it through. And we are definitely not to blame for 9/11 or any other terriost attack carried out by al-Qaeda or any other Islamic radical group or by Timothy McVeigh and/or an anti government militia attack on the federal building in Oklahoma City. But I think people need to understand that our policies, whether you support those policies or not led to these attacks. In no way should that be construed as blaming ourshelves for those attacks.

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Originally posted by david309:
Ron Paul has no chance of winning the nomination, but he's certainly not a moron. He makes more rational sense than all of the other candidates put together. And what he said about the root causes of our current trouble with the fundamentalist Muslims is completely accurate. U.S. foreign policy for most of the 20th century did one thing after another to enrage the Arabs. If the U.S. government would quit running around the world trying to tell other countries what to do, we would make far fewer enemies. The absurd notion that "they hate us because of our freedom" is laughable. They hate us because we've consistently done things in their lands that offend and enrage them. If some other world power stationed troops in our country, the American people would eventually resent it, too. That doesn't make their response moral or acceptable, but it DOES go a long way toward explaining WHY it happened. The 9/11 Commission Report made that point, and it's well-accepted by people who actually know anything about the history of the area. But most Americans today seem more interested in showy jingoism instead of facts. Speaking the facts doesn't make Paul a moron. It does, however, make it impossible for him to be elected president, because the truth is one of those things that voters don't want to hear.

David

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Originally posted by david309:
Ron Paul has no chance of winning the nomination, but he's certainly not a moron. He makes more rational sense than all of the other candidates put together. And what he said about the root causes of our current trouble with the fundamentalist Muslims is completely accurate. U.S. foreign policy for most of the 20th century did one thing after another to enrage the Arabs. If the U.S. government would quit running around the world trying to tell other countries what to do, we would make far fewer enemies. The absurd notion that "they hate us because of our freedom" is laughable. They hate us because we've consistently done things in their lands that offend and enrage them. If some other world power stationed troops in our country, the American people would eventually resent it, too. That doesn't make their response moral or acceptable, but it DOES go a long way toward explaining WHY it happened. The 9/11 Commission Report made that point, and it's well-accepted by people who actually know anything about the history of the area. But most Americans today seem more interested in showy jingoism instead of facts. Speaking the facts doesn't make Paul a moron. It does, however, make it impossible for him to be elected president, because the truth is one of those things that voters don't want to hear.

David