Ron Paul was almost booed off the stage at last night’s “Tea Party” debate on CNN when he spoke about the real reasons al Qaeda attacked us. His explanation was followed by being chastised by Rick Santorum.
Appearing on Democracy Now! on Tuesday, U.S. scholar and MIT professor Noam Chomsky responded to comments made by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) during Monday’s tea party debate, suggesting Paul had said nothing controversial at all, despite the audience’s negative reaction.
He agreed with Paul’s assessment about al Qaeda’s stated motives for attacking the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001: it’s not American freedom or the nature of its society, it was U.S. policies that drove them to such a savage attack.
“What he said is completely uncontroversial,” Chomsky said. “You can read it and go in the documents. You can find it in polls. Maybe people don’t like to hear it.”
He concluded that many Muslims around the world had opposed the U.S. “not because they hate our freedoms, but because they opposed murderous and brutal policies.”
The Tea Party can’t bear to hear the truth I guess… Or, the simply have no interest in the truth.
The truth does not fall into their playbook. It must not be allowed to interfere with the “instill fear at all cost” so the bleating sheep will follow!
If you mention Mosaddegh to a Teapublican, they would just think you couldn’t pronounce Mossy Oak!
This is the only area where I agree with Ron Paul. All his other policies are just more looney tunes.