Blowback!?
I screwed up this earlier because I was in a hurry. El Borak responded to my comments about Ron Paul:
My good man Snoop gets Ron Paul wrong:
“I have never understood the concept the trying to ban someone from speaking because folks did not like what was said.
Ron Paul is a fucken nobody and has no shot whatsoever of getting the Republican nomination.
Yes he is a nut job and a silly bastard. His statement was outrageous and over the top stupid. Hell Rudy does not want him banned from future debates, he personally raised Rudys poll numbers, shit I bet Rudy paid him to make the comments.”
El Borak: What he’s talking about is the efforts of the Chairman of the Michigan GOP to ban Ron Paul from some GOP debates for saying, “Have you ever read about the reasons they attacked us? They attack us because we have been over there.”
Weve been bombing Iraq for 10 years. In other words, Paul is claiming that 9/11 was not simply a provocation, but a reaction to US policy dating back to the Clinton years and probably further, that it was a case of “blowback,” an unintended consequence of our own actions.
Where Snoop is right is that Paul cannot win the GOP nomination and that he probably helps Rudy, especially among the GOP faithful. But where I think he’s wrong is in saying that Paul’s assertion is “over the top stupid.” Rather I think he’s right on.
The clue that he’s not simply making this up onstage is found in the phrase, “Have you ever read,” and there are a number of places where one might have read just that:
I love my man El Borak but…..blowback….hardly, I’m not a complex thinker like El, but I found this piece below that I posted on my old blog.
As far as I’m concerned, if American had never set foot in the Middle East we would still be a target.
The same way Democrats creates class envy by continuing to repeat the oft used phrase, “tax the rich” “Republicans are racist” creating class envy and racial strife is what keep many Democrats in power.
Muslims are no different, they want their people to stay ignorant, vengeful, and hostile, it keeps power in the hand of a few.
Anywho check out both and you decide.
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Democracy is the formal icing on a preexisting cake of egalitarianism, economic opportunity, religious tolerance, and constant self-criticism. It cannot appear in the Muslim world until men and women demolish the medieval forces of tribalism, authoritarian traditionalism, and Islamic fundamentalism.
The catastrophe of the Muslim world is also explicable in its failure to grasp the nature of Western success, which springs neither from luck nor resources, genes nor geography.
Like third-world Marxists of the 1960s, who put blame for their own self-inflicted misery upon corporations, colonialism, and racism—anything other than the absence of real markets and a free society—the Islamic intelligentsia recognizes the Muslim world’s inferiority towards the West, but it then seeks to fault others for its own self-created fiasco.
Government spokesmen in the Middle East should have the courage to say that they are poor because their populations are nearly half illiterate, that their governments are not free, that their economies are not open, and that their fundamentalists impede scientific inquiry, unpopular expression, and cultural exchange.
Tragically, the immediate prospects for improvement are dismal, as the war against terrorism has further isolated the Middle East. Travel, foreign education, and academic exchanges — the only sources of future hope for the Arab world — have screeched to a halt.
All the conferences in Cairo about Western bias and media distortion cannot hide this self-inflicted catastrophe — and the growing ostracism and suspicion of Middle Easterners in the West.
But blaming the West for the unendurable reality is easier for millions of Muslims than admitting the truth.
Billions of barrels of oil, large populations, the Suez Canal, the fertility of the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates valleys, invaluable geopolitical locations, and a host of other natural advantages that helped create wealthy civilizations in the past now yield an excess of misery, rather than the riches of resource-poor Hong Kong or Switzerland.
How could it be otherwise, when it takes bribes and decades to obtain a building permit in Cairo; when habeas corpus is a cruel joke in Baghdad; and when Saudi Arabia turns out more graduates in Islamic studies than in medicine or engineering?
To tackle illiteracy, state-sanctioned killing, and the economic misery that comes from corruption and state control require courage and self-examination.
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