Ronny has a Point

I have not really paid a lot of attention to the current debates and goings on of the presidential race. The main reason for this is that the 2008 election is basically going to be picking who sucks the least instead of who is the best. It is a little like the tagline for that horrible Alien vs. Predator movie, "Whoever wins....we lose." That really isn't the point of this post, though. If you have been paying much attention to the internet over the last few days, you'll have noticed that there are a lot of people out there that support Ron Paul. I don't know a ton about the guy yet, but apparently he said some things that upset people. Namely, in the Republican presidential debate in South Carolina, he said that part the reason for the Sept. 11 attacks was a backlash against our involvement in the Middle East. Giuliani did not like this one bit, and shot Paul down saying that it was absurd, and that he had never heard of anything like that being suggested. This made the audiance roar and cheer for Rudy. That is pretty funny, when you consider that bin Laden himself has said that's why they did it.
CNN's Roland Martin writes today that Ron Paul's point deserves some debate. Personally, I don't think that it is his point that needs to be debated, but rather, what can we do to prevent pissing people off further, and defending ourselves if we do piss them off. That's right, just cause we wrong someone doesn't mean that I'm all for them coming over and killing us. The same way that I don't think they're too keen on the reversal. In the end, this is all some fairly interesting stuff that you definitely need to educate yourself on if you want to make an informed decision about the future.