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Originally Posted by rightwinger
Hey. I actually agree with some of what Ron Paul is saying this time.
But he's confused the commission, with the actual investigation....
And the 9-11 commission report gets what happened correct, I just think it fails to draw any solid conclusions about what could have been done, and what should be done in the future.
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Well, the one thing the report does address is blowback, and the fact that people attack us because we piss them off, sticking our noses where they don't need to be and are most certainly not invited.
We've been meddling in the middle east, starting in 1948 when we helped steal Palestinian land to make Israel. Then in 1953, we performed false-flag terror attacks to frame the Iranian government, overthrew them, and installed the Shah, who would let BP build an oil pipeline. That worked out really well when the Ayatollahs rose to power in response to the US' douchebaggery.
We've been bombing Iraq since the early 90's. We've had our dirty little fingers and toes in Palestine and Afghanistan for nearly 2 decades (we also trained militants in both those nations).
The US' poor decision making abilities and our pension to spread democracy through subversive political and military methods creates 90% of our problems.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia (the place where those 9/11 hijackers came from) has the world in a death grip by the teets with oil right now, and Bush goes over to hold hands and play kissy face with them.
I love Ron Paul's "do unto others" approach with this issue and to use one of his arguments, we would be furious if China or Russia, or ANY country out there did this shit to us. Yet for some reason, US leaders and citizens seem to think we should be able to run around doing as we please and not expect any consequences for it.
If anything positive can come out of 9/11, it should be this awareness of our own hypocricy.