Ron Paul - Hearing on Afghanistan 10/15/2009

Cartoon by Ted Rall

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"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd

Notice the answer given to Ron Paul's question by the chubby guy, who also complained about only having 20 seconds to respond... I bet he was glad there was only 20 seconds left, it allowed him to give a vague half truth without a follow up question being asked.

He essentially said that Yes, they do study the motivations (calling it "ideology") of the Islamist and he agreed that their reasoning goes deeper than not liking our freedom and culture... But then he said that it is very sophisticated, implying that most people would not understand.

But by that same reasoning, most common everyday Muslims wouldn't understand, right? I mean, if its all that sophisticated, how successful can al Qaeda be at motivating the average Muslim (in large numbers) to Jihad. Are we to believe that the suicide bomber stands there while explosives are being strapped to his torso, and he asks, "Now explain this to me again, because its very difficult to follow... I want to do this why?"

What a bunch of ninnies we have up there. Al Qaeda is successful because they are able to communicate, simply and clearly, the reasons for a Defensive Jihad against the United States. Those reasons resonate with the average Muslim man on the street. And they don't need a theology degree in Islam to understand it!

is there for any hijackers. For that matter what evidence is there for anyone on those flights at all. These so called hijackers couldn't even fly small planes, they made asses of themselves whereever they went, to draw attention, and by now are probably very dead but not from pilot error. I don't see any family members for people on hijacked flights among the group at NYCCAN. These craft had to be remotely guided, why have a human onboard that might interfere with that

attacked are backed by a study he cites in his book, The Revolution a Manifesto, pg. 20. The University of Chicago's Robert Pape analyzed a database of all suicide terror attacks between 1980 and 2004 ("the al Qaeda years"). Dr. Paul says "The clincher is this: the strongest motivation, according to Pape, is not religion but rather a desire 'to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory the terrorists view as their homeland.' " . . ."Until the U.S. invasion in 2003, Iraq had never had a suicide terrorist attack in its entire history. Between 1982 and 1986, there were 41 suicide terrorist attacks in Lebanon. Once the U.S., France and Israel withdrew their forces from Lebanon, there were no more attacks." Kagan states that their dislike of us is due to their "struggle within Islam" - could that be because the Taliban never did anything to us, we were paying them money up until May of 2001, and then we started bombing them?

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