Simple answer: neither one has bothered to do a simple google search on Ron Paul.
Ferguson is your cookie cutter neocon talk-show radio host, whom also shares the same birth year as myself — thus making him the youngest nationally syndicated radio bobblehead.
On a recent Paula Zahn segment of CNN he suggested that Ron Paul’s discussion of Blowback last week was frivolous, fallacious, and a way to boost his media exposure.
Regardless as to whether or not the “theory of blowback” is valid whatsoever, Ferguson and others fail to realize that Paul has been giving speeches and writing articles on this very topic before the Iraq War even began. It is not new, nor is it his own fringe theory.
In fact, Michael Scheuer, former Chief of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden Unit, has gone on record suggesting that bin Laden’s actions were in direct response to America’s foreign policy throughout the Middle East — that it was blowback.
Which brings us to Eric Dondero, who served on Ron Paul’s election committee for several years. Mr. Dondero recently published a letter admonishing Ron Paul’s alleged “Blame America” statements at the debate, therefore now Dondero intends on running against Paul for the Congressional seat in Texas.
While I have never met Mr. Dondero, a cynic could call his accusations shrewdly timed and carefully calculated.
Dondero also seems to have ignored the dozens of essays and speeches written and delivered by Paul during Dondero’s term of service (1997-2003), many of which lambaste the shortsighted foreign policies executed and promoted by the administration and Congress.
From the horses mouth:
- Ron Paul’s articles at LewRockwell.com
- Paul’s articles at Antiwar.com
- A couple of his books (1 2)
Note: I lament the attack on Congressman Paul for several reasons, the biggest of which is that he is an amigo of both the Internet (never voted to tax or regulate it) and innovative technologies in general (he is staunchly anti-regulation/free-market). Geeks and nerds have someone to actually root for this time around.