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WASHINGTON — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani won the strongest applause at Tuesday night's first-in-the-South Republican primary debate when he lashed out at Texas Rep. Ron Paul for suggesting that the United States' non-interventionist policy invited the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Okay, take that at face value for a second. I'm not asking you to agree or disagree with Ron Paul's position or Rudy's, but look at how it's being spun. Fox News columnist/journalist Sharon Kehnemui Liss states that Ron Paul asserted that our non-interventionist policy is what invoked 9/11.



Non-interventionist. That is, "the US not intervening in the Middle East." The very next paragraphs of the article continue:

"They attack us because we've been over there. We've been bombing Iraq for 10 years. ... We've been in the Middle East," Paul said in explaining his opposition to going to war in Iraq. "Right now, we're building an embassy in Iraq that is bigger than the Vatican. We're building 14 permanent bases. What would we say here if China was doing this in our country or in the Gulf of Mexico? We would be objecting.



"They are delighted that we're over there because Usama bin Laden has said, 'I'm glad you're over on our sand because we can target you so much easier.' They have already now since that time they've killed 3,400 of our men and I don't think it was necessary," he continued.

What part of what Ron Paul is saying smacks of non-interventionist policy? That sounds entirely like Paul is suggesting the exact opposite, that it is our footprints in so-called Muslim lands that was (and is) the problem. This isn't a blog post, it's a news article that presumably goes through at least one layer of quality control between Kehnemui Liss' keyboard and the eyeballs of the nation. Not only that, but if you were to ask anyone who's watched fifteen minutes of news coverage since 1030PM EST last night what the biggest story of the debate was, this would be the easy answer.



So, we're supposed to believe Fox News made an error that stands uncorrected at this point on an article detailing the biggest national political story from last night? Hardly. This is a lie, plain and simple, that is meant to perpetuate the notion that the only acceptable foreign policy strategy is the aggressive hegemony this administration has pushed, and many of last night's candidates continue to support.



Sharon Kehnemui Liss, her fact-checkers, her editors, and everyone at Fox News? What a bunch of assholes.

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