This is how it all started.
This exchange with Giuliani started MAJOR media coverage for Ron Paul. Ron Paul has always - since the 80's at least - championed a non-interventionist foreign policy. At around 6:01 in the video, the moderator asks if 9/11 changed the non-interventionist policies. Ron Paul argues that more interventionism would antagonize our enemies. What happens when you get antagonized? Don't you want to right the wrongs done against you?
Another great point: Ron Paul brings up that the US is building 14 PERMANENT bases in Iraq bigger than the Vatican! What are we doing that for? And why didn't any one ever tell me that my tax dollars were headed over to support those bases?
Next, Ron Paul applies the golden rule. What would we say if China was building bases in the US? Wouldn't we be up in arms? Ur damn right we would. We don't even like French companies owning our Water Treatment Facilities.
So who among the Republicans or the Democrats brings up these subjects? Who in the media for that matter brings these subjects up? No one in my mind has ever mentioned these facts.
On a side note, the phrase "invited the attack" - as far as I know - comes from a book called Blowback, by Chalmers Johnson. I'ver read it. About 4 times. (Not cuz it's such a great book, but it's so difficult to read.) Blowback is on Ron Paul's reading list to Giuliani. It discusses how the US's foreign policy can incite hatred and vengeful acts against the US. And get this: it was published BEFORE 9/11.
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