Pat Buchanan wrote a fantastic article about Ron Paul, defending comments the Republican presidential hopeful made in the recent Columbia debate regarding the reason we were attacked on 9/11. When Paul suggested that terrorists' hatred of the United States was driven by past U.S. involvement in the Middle East, Rudy Giuliani flew into a rage, trying to claim that Paul was unpatriotic for suggesting such a thing. Giuliani tried to completely warp Paul's comments into making it sound like Paul was blaming the U.S. for the attacks, which isn't the case at all. Paul was simply saying that actions like stationing troops in Saudi Arabia or sanctioning the Iraqi people created animosity towards to U.S. from the Arab world. That's just a fact. That in no way condones or rationalizes what the terrorists what the terrorists did. I get mad when someone cuts me off in traffic. The fact that he did something to anger me doesn't mean it is justified, or is his fault, if I follow him home and burn down his house for it (maybe that's a poor analogy, but that's all I can come up with on such little sleep).
I still think Ron Paul looks the best out of the Republican candidates, but I really don't see him getting the nomination with the way the news media, especially on television, is trying to ignore him and only focus on Giuliani and McCain.
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