It's amazing how this attack on Israel caused many Americans with an intense affinity for it to instantly revert back to the most childish and repressive post-9/11 behaviors. The Guardian removed the bin Laden letter because people were realizing the same things Ron Paul said:
It's amazing how this attack on Israel caused many Americans with an intense affinity for it to instantly revert back to the most childish and repressive post-9/11 behaviors. The Guardian removed the bin Laden letter because people were realizing the same things Ron Paul said:
Ron Paul took this message into the deepest red districts in Iowa and South Carolina: Neocons are using your money to fight foreign wars not in your interests. These wars *increase* the risk of anti-American terror attacks, etc. And he came in second in 2008 and 2012.
I was reading the letter & agreeing up until it came to Osama Bin Laden's demands. He wanted the whole US to switch to Sharia Law & to enshrine it into our laws & legal systems. I agree that the US needs to practice military isolationism & only give out foreign aid in the form of humanitarian aid to civilians, but drastically changing the US into a theocracy under Islam is not & will never happen. I also agree with never funding foreign militaries or subsidizing their national defense. The US should leave NATO & remove its military bases.
@ggreenwald There is no reality where "Bin Laden had a point." US foreign policy doesn't exist in a vacuum. So-called "American imperialism" must be evaluated with the alternatives in mind (the Chinese or Russian versions). An absence of power will always be filled by something.
@ggreenwald I remember that like it was yesterday. Dr. Ron was right.
@ggreenwald It was not an 'attack on Israel' it was an act of resistance by victims of apartheid. And as we know, the Israeli narrative on this 'attack' has been a pack of lies.