O Rly? Let's look at what Ron Paul really said:
The reason we were attacked on 911 was because we violated the Golden Rule. The reason they attack us, is because we have bombed them. Why is that preposterous?
1. Al Qaeda isn't a friggin country.
2. We were not bombing Al Qaeda, or anyone, when we were attacked on 911.
3. You cannot justify the evil murder of innocent noncombatants by pointing to some "Golden Rule."
4. To the extent he really limited his comments to terrorist attacks since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan started, he's still off his rocker. Radical Islamists don't have a country (see no. 1).
It's just mind-boggling that this man could say what he did when he's trying be elected Commander in Chief.
1.Al Quaeda is an organization, composed of people, who live in countries largely in the middle east that are sick of our actions in their region, which is spawning sympathy with muslims across the globe. There are literally dozens of our actions in the last 50 years that we have done that pissed the people in that region off.
2. Of course we werent actively "bombing" when it attacked, but those attacks were due to our involvement in the middle east, to think otherwise is just naive (They bomb us because they hate us is NOT a valid reason, there are many many other countries that are as liberal or MORE liberal than the US. Yes, they hate our way of life, but they attacked us because they hate our way of life AND our involvement in their region of the world)
3.Of course you cannot, and there is no way Paul was trying to "justify" their attacks. Just because he understands the reasons they attacked us in no way means he thinks it was OK. That is a huge stretch of logic.
4.This whole statement is retarded. Of course they arent from 1 single country, they are from multiple countries in a REGION in which they are pissed at our activities. Youre really stretching with these statements like "Hes wrong cause they arent a country, theyre an organization, or "Radical Islamists dont have a country".. Cmon, youre just fishing for a way to refute his statements because there is no other way.
Radical Islamists hate us for 2 reasons. 1. Our actions in their region of the world. 2. Our way of life. Since many, many other countries share our way of life, there can be only 1 logical conclusion... they must be pissed because of our involvement in their way of life. Weird huh?