In a show of idiocy Ben Stein called Ron Paul antisemitic because the Congressman holds the correct view that they attack us because we are over there.
Just shows that people still hold to the party line when time and again it is proven that blowback is the reason for 9/11 and all the attacks we still experience.
Ben Stein pulls himself right out and center to prove why he's in the Rudy Giuliani land of foreign policy and emotional railroading of all political issues, rather then doing some research and actually studying the issue. Maybe if he done some of his own work rather then lecturing people how why he was so off base on the economic down-turn that hit us we'd listen, but until then I'm seriously thinking he and his other ilk will would make me wish I was a deaf so I didn't have to listen to him.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't call Ron Paul "anti-Semitic." Ben Stein is just wrong. However, Paul has a definite anti-Israeli agenda. On every issue he sides with the Palestinians and with Israel's enemies. Which can obviously be seen by American Jews as anti-Semitic. So, while Stein's comment is incorrect, it's entirely understandable.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, Middle-Easterners attack America for our Culture, NOT AT ALL!!! because we have Troops stationed in their countries. That is the biggest line of horseshit every pushed by Anti-War isolationist crowd.
I was stationed over there - Bahrain. I speak some basic Arabic. I can tell you why they hate us:
Brittany Spears, American Movies, Hollywood Glamour, Booze and Drugs, American chics in bikinis, MTV, and our Wealth.
It's about the Culture Stupid!
Eric Dondero, fmr. Personal Aide
US Congressman Ron Paul, 1987-2003
Thankfully, thankfully, thankfully, younger Rand Paul's views on foreign policy are quite different from his Dad's.
ReplyDeleteRand is gonna make a fantastic US Senator.
Take the best of Ron Paul - his economic views, and combine them with Tough on Terroism and support for a Strong Defense, and you have a winning combination. Not too mention the most principled of all libertarian stances.
Islamists have attacked Westerners for several centuries. See: The Siege of Constantinople in 1457 and the Battle of Tours (France) by the Moors in 735 AD. Wahhabists butchered their own people in the 1700s if their particular sect was not accepted. The US could pull out of the Middle East and the terrorists would still attack us. They simply view us as the enemy, regardless of what we do, whom we support, and where we place troops.
ReplyDeleteLet alone Stein's statement being a ludicrous anathema which makes the Spanish Inquisition look a club of subtle lawyers, it has now become counter-productive. It does not intimidate people as it used to, before the Israeli Defence Minister called for a "shoah of the people of Gaza" and Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs asked for apartheid to be enforced in Israel against some of its own citizens conveniently labelled as "potential traitors"... When will Stein and the like of his realise that their posturing as the archetype of the exclusive victim, makes more and more people grunt with disgust in the face of zionist crimes and racism, in the face of the wars which the American zionists are waging for Eretz Israel, in the face of the financial crises and scandals and the ruine of America orchestrated by the cosmopolitan finance, in the face of the theft of human organs in Palestine and Kosovo and their sale through New York's synagogues? Will they understand, before it is too late, the warning of French Jewish Professor Roger Dommergue who said that "the conditions are being met for the most spectacular eruption of antijudaism of human History"? Like Professor Dommergue, I write "antijudaism" instead of "antisemitism" by the way, because, according to History professor Shlomo Sand from Tel-Aviv University, the Jews of Israel are the descendants, not of Abraham, but of Gentiles from the shores of the Mediterranean see and from the Khazar kingdom (now Georgia). According to Jewish Professor Sand, the Palestinians - God bless them - are the descendants of Abraham and the owners of the Promised Land. So Stein, again, eructed in vain on more than one account. Do you reckon that his flair will let him know this time, that he spat at a vertical...?
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to shoot someone who is not there. As for Ben stein and those that are Jewish. It is not anti anything to want to stay out of other countries and stay home. Why should we spend American tax dollars on Israel. They did quite well in 1967 and would do again if we stop sticking our nose in where it does not belong. This felling does not make me anti or pro anyone but America. The founding fathers warned us about being greatly involved in foreign affairs. We have no right to meddle in others affairs. We need to spen all of the tax dollars here. We should not spend so much money over seas. We need better roads,bridges and improvements here that we can not afford. Bring the troops home. I mean all of them from Korea, Europe,Middle east and any other place in the world. We spend billions in countries where they hate us. Spend the money here. The foreign countries will miss all the beer,food,movie tickets,gas and so much our guys and gals spend while being deployed. We do not need to protect large global profits that do not pay taxes here.
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