U.S. Foreign Policy Directly Affected the Rise of Isamic Terrorism Backed by Osama Bin Laden

Pity that only poor neglected Ron Paul appears to be the only Republican candidate who hasn't followed in the footsteps of George W. Bush by virtue of considering the reading of history to be anathema. Every time Ron Paul attempts to bring the conflict in the Middle East out of Dark Age absolutist supernaturalism to which Bush and his cronies have placed it (a war between good and evil), he is attacked by such intellectual giants as Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney. Recently, during a GOP candidate debate broadcast by ABC and moderated by the disgraceful Charlie Gibson, every single candidate but Ron Paul astonishingly voiced their collective opinion that Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with U.S. foreign policy. Rudy (I alone saved America on 9/11) Giuliani led the charge against Paul, but Thompson, Romney and even the pathetic McCain piled on.

Let's begin with the forgotten man at the center of American politics and Islamic jihadism today; not Saddam Hussein, of course, but the man still roaming freely, Osama Bin Laden. What the GOP doesn't like to mention is that when their God, Ronald Reagan, was President and his Vice President was the father of the current President, and his administration employed people like Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, billions of dollars were sent to help Osama Bin Laden keep the Soviets entangled in what was then viewed as a Vietnam-like quagmire in Afghanistan. (Today it would be compared to an Iraq-like quagmire that drains their coffers while lining the pockets of defense contractors.) That was the beginning of direct foreign intervention into Islamic territory that began the process of creating the most important Islamic terrorism figure today. Bin Laden may be crazy, but he's not stupid. He could surely have figured out that America only saw fit to show an interest in Islamic nations when their interests were at stake and as soon as those interests were met, they were out of there. But that's not the foreign policy decision that did most to ignite Bin Laden's jihadist dreams.