No; he identified the causes of their hatred
Just like infidelity could drive a husband to murder their wife. The wife isn’t to blame for here own murder of course. But you, Benito Giuliani, and the rest would say that even brining up the infidelity would be “blaming the victim” and that “he killed his wife because he hated her freedom.”
Dr. Demento’s “Cause of hatred” = CIA installing the Shah of Iran, 1953. Yup. Uh huh. He blamed US, dude. Sorry, no dice. That was the best thing that ever happened to Iran. Dragged it kicking and screaming into the modern era. Now, if he were to blame Carter for f***ing up the good we did there, he’d be on to something. But let’s be honest, the real cause of blame:
Mohammad = 7th Century.
Dr. Demento needs to get with the program or go back to his cell next to Karl’s at the nervous hospital.
The worst thing we have done in the Middle East is to buy oil and those like Paul who wish to give shelter to the bankrupt ideas that fuel the hatred in the Middle East like the Democrat party and large sections of the free world's media should take responsibility for their role in fostering the continued hatred when they should be calling for all Muslims and people in the MiddleEast to join us in Peace. Instead they would rather argue and make excuses about how bombing Iraq which continued to violate its terms of surrender some how made the radical Muslims angry.
I wonder how sensitive Mr. Paul and Moore would have us be to the plight of Radical Muslims in the search of World Domination? Do we ban cartoons that might make them upset? Do we ban books that reflect badly on Mohammad? There are all kind of things that seem to tick Muslims off enough to kill. It doesn't take much and it most certainly doesn't take bombs or violations of Islamic territory to do it. Yes we have to be careful not to hurt the feelings of such passionate religious people no matter how irrational they may be. I only wish they'd show this tolerance to religious people here in the US.
The worst part of the rhetoric is that it totally disregards the will of sane Muslims who welcome liberty and the free market. It is the same disregard the left had for the South Vietnamese, 500000 of which died in prisons camps when Ted Kennedy and the Democrat party cut off funding in 1975. It brings one to question why is it that the opinions of their more radical hateful breathern win the day? We do not need to understand the hate we need to lead by example like we are in the liberation of Iraq.
We finally did the right thing from both a humanitarian and a strategic view but that isn't good enough because we have people in this country that are fueling the fire against their own soldiers, against freedom. Using words like Empire, Occupation, and focusing on isolated mistakes and casting our soldiers as crusaders and nazis. They have made AbuGrabe a catch phrase that one would think is stapled to the tip of their tongues as quickly as they bring it out to beat our soldiers with.
The low rhetoric of the left and isolationist libertarians has killed more Iraqis inspiring them with lies to attack our soldiers than would've died had they and the world provided the soldiers and the Iraqi people the support and encouragement they deserve. Instead they spread poisonous rumors about conspiracies, they rehabilitate the hateful dictator Saddam, they stoke the fire and defend the most oppressive regimes remaining on this planet and now they want us to leave Iraq. They want us to run away like cowards so the US can have another shameful black eye and they can have political power or maybe just bask in the bitterness of their clear and present evil selves.