12.22
“”Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.” –Thomas Jefferson
Watch what happens here. Ron Paul is asked a question about the war in Iraq and our foreign policy. He gives a well reasoned answer from history in response. The moderator then fires back with a challenge question about 9/11. What? What does 9/11 have to do with Iraq? We were bombing Iraq all through the Clinton presidency. And to this day there has yet to be any evidence to tie Iraq to 9/11. They are completely un-related, except for the fact that Bush wanted to put a base there to keep our American interests in the middle east.
But, what really fires me up is Rudi Guiliani coming back with some tripe about how Ron Paul should rescind his statements because “I lived through 9/11.” So what? I watched it on T.V. If we take Guiliani’s statements as a syllogism it would look like this:
- I was present at the 9/11 attacks.
- I’ve never heard anyone claim blowback was what caused 9/11.
- Therefore, we shouldn’t have a non-interventionist foreign policy.
What? And, he gets raucous applause for that asinine argument? I swear, sometimes it’s all just too much. And we wonder why we ended up with a fascist in the White House.
