Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Here’s what Newt meant. We are almost to the 6th aniversery of 9/11, yet this President wanted to grant amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens with only a 24hr background check. As Sept 11 closes in, our southern border is still wide open. Now he wants to sell 20 billion dollars of advanced weapons to the Saudis who fund the evil Wahabi sect throughout the world. Finally we still have begun to develop an energy policy that would allow us to become enery independent thus starving the economies of Iran and Saudi.
So yes, this is a phony war. Always has been.
That's what Newt means, certainly. If Ron Paul were to advocate moving our troops out of Iraq and into Saudi Arabia, declaring Wahhabism to be an illegal cult, holding a Nuremburg-style trial and hanging any remaining jihadists in public, then using the Saudi treasury to repair the damage that jihadism has caused all over the world, then I would vote for him in a heartbeat.
Unfortunately, that's not what Paul means. He would rather have us blame ourselves for being attacked and give in.