i just watched this clip of the last republican debate in which ron paul is getting hammered by the other republican candidates for his views on terrorism and america. while i am not a republican and not a supporter of ron paul, i have to say that when it comes to his foreign policy views and especially his views on understanding and fighting terrorism i completely agree with him and i applaud him for sticking to his views. what was quite interesting in this clip and what made me post it was a comment by giuliani which comes towards the end of the clip. after ron paul’s comment about the need to understand why terrorist attack the US, giuliani paints islamic terrorists as a group of fanatics that are just out to look for killing westerners and the destruction of the western way of live. during his little rant he mentions several of the recent terrorism attacks (in bali, spain and england) and then goes on to mention in the same sentence that those islamic terrorists also attacked germany during the olympics in the ’70s. unfortunately the clip fades out there, so i don’t know if there was any follow up to this sentence. but the press made a big deal out of some stupid foreign policy comments by huckabee recently i wish they would point out this absolute stupidity by giuliani who people think is a bit smarter than the preacher from arkansas. it is exactly this half- or non-knowledge of the terrorism threat that is dangerous. ron paul is right when he says we need to understand the threat to fight it, and giuliani proved him right in that we don’t seem to understand it. to throw palestinians and al qaeda into the pot is not just stupid and shows how little knowledge he has about the matter, but this ignorance also shows that people like giuliani or bush (or the other republican candidates who seemed to agree with giuliani) have no plan on how to really address the islamic issue.
Tags: foreign policy, giuliani, republicans, ron paul, Terrorism
