You guys amuse me to no end.
Criminals aren't to be believed in any other context,
unless and until they explicitly and freely mention
why they do what they do?
Then their credibility is ironclad?
What a howler.
Pray tell what was America doing to any Islamist whackadoo back 1784, you know, the year after the Constitution was adopted, and long before William McKinley turned us down the road to being an international player by chewing up Hawaii, the Spanish Empire, and some of the Boxers?
Yes Noam Chomsky is an idiot, but not Mr. Paul.
Let me know when Switzerland bombs middle eastern satellite dishes with
Baywatch, corroding the influence of various mullahs, muftis, and other assorted clerics via graven images of jiggling silicone implants willya?
They might hate us for being friendly with the Saudis, propping up Israel, backing the Shah, blah, blah, blah, AND they hate us for being the harbinger of Western Civilization. Their hatred of us is not a simplistic single source wellspring.
The Sword and Shield of the free world tends to get the thankless task of getting bloodied and bashed. The Swiss Army knife stays safely in the pocket as the nice, but non-factor, that it is.
The Swiss aren't attacked because they are stay at home neutrals, they aren't attacked because they are comfortable freeloaders off of the more positive efforts of others.
The MI GOP is retarded. The fastest way to make Ron Paul irrelevant is to let him riff on foreign policy in front of national audiences.