Jeff Goldberg at Bloomberg Businessweek smears Ron Paul

[TNforPaul45]

So I got my new issue of BloomBuiss this morning, and the first article I start reading is from Jeff Goldberg, titled: "Goodbye to all that: Will conflict fatigue and a domestic energy boom bring an end ot the U.S. obsession with the Middle East?"

An article right up our alley, right? Here's the first two paragraphs:

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While the typical Ron Paul speech is shot through with paranoia, grandiosity, and omnibus weirdness, America’s No. 1 libertarian extremist moves in from the margins when he talks about the country’s current aversion to foreign entanglements.
“Somebody said the other day on the Internet, if those Paul people had been in charge, [URL="http://topics.bloomberg.com/osama-bin-laden/"]Osama bin Laden (http://) would still be alive,” Paul told an adoring crowd of fringe Republicans in late August, Bloomberg Businessweek reports in its Sept. 10 issue. “But you know what I think the answer is? So would the 3,000 people on 9/11 be alive!”

The statement is, of course, historically clueless. The attacks of Sept. 11 were set in motion by Islamism’s sense of theological supremacy, by its loathing of modernity, and also by revulsion at the American presence on the Arabian Peninsula. It was a presence deemed by U.S. policy makers, correctly, to be vital to a functioning world economy. And yet Paul’s simplistic isolationism also reflects a broad desire for a clean break from the Middle East (http://topics.bloomberg.com/middle-east/).


I am just dumbfounded. . . I think it's time to email Mr. Goldberg: goldberg.atlantic@gmail.com

[specsaregood]

So this guy knows more than our CIA? How much do we spend on the CIA every year? It sounds to me like we should lay off the entire CIA department and just hire this guy. Imagine the savings!

[jbauer]

just another dude looking to get hits on his article from Ron's loyal army of internet-bots. We aren't going to change his mind not worth giving him any attention over.

[HOLLYWOOD]

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Jeffrey Goldberg is a Bloomberg View columnist appearing on Tuesdays. A national correspondent for the Atlantic, he is the author of "Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror." He is a winner of the National Magazine Award for reporting.
A former Washington correspondent and Middle East correspondent for the New Yorker, Goldberg began his career at the Washington Post. He later wrote a column for the Jerusalem Post; covered the Mafia for New York Magazine; and wrote for several years for the New York Times Magazine. He has been public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a Fellow of the Jerusalem Foundation. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and now lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and three children.

[bill1971]

That stinks, I still think he was good in Jurassic Park and the Fly.

[Bastiat's The Law]

"By its loathing of modernity" Did he miss their intelligence, recruitment, and communication network via satellite and the internet?

[low preference guy]

9/11 wouldn't have happened because the pilots would've had guns, moron. RP talked many times about that.

[musicmax]

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/bios/jeffrey-goldberg/

NYC, DC, Jerusalem. What a diversity of opinion he has exposed himself to.

[KCIndy]

"By its loathing of modernity" Did he miss their intelligence, recruitment, and communication network via satellite and the internet?


That hi-tech stuff is just enemy propaganda. Everyone knows that The Ones Who Hate Us For Our Freedoms live in caves. Didn't you know??


(Yes, this is /S/ Sarcasm!) :)

[Occam's Banana]

The attacks of Sept. 11 were set in motion by Islamism’s sense of theological supremacy, by its loathing of modernity, and also by revulsion at the American presence on the Arabian Peninsula. It was a presence deemed by U.S. policy makers, correctly, to be vital to a functioning world economy.

Notice how the core of RP's blowback thesis has been incorporated into the list of causes of 9-11. They can't refute the logic of blowback, so instead they'll just assimilate it - in the form of blowback (justified, in this case, by asserting the "economic necessity" of interventionist policies) all wrapped up in "they hate us for our freedom" bullshit.

It's a rhetorical strategy of "embrace & extend" - I've been expecting it, and I expect to see more of it.

[CableNewsJunkie]

just another dude looking to get hits on his article from Ron's loyal army of internet-bots. We aren't going to change his mind not worth giving him any attention over.

This.

Gage Skidmore has more name recognition than this guy.

[Bossobass]

Did you guys all get that? Our presence in the ME is vital to a functioning world economy.

Thanks for the heads up, Mr. Steensteinbergerowitz the Middle East expert. The US has to borrow 10 trillion dollars of American taxpayer's future earnings in order to have a "functioning world economy".

How functional. :rolleyes:

[emazur]

So this guy knows more than our CIA? How much do we spend on the CIA every year? It sounds to me like we should lay off the entire CIA department and just hire this guy. Imagine the savings!

He knows more than the FBI too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1bm2GPoFfg&feature=player_embedded

[DavidK]

As much as I disapprove of Islam's stance on human rights -- Islam did not attack us on 9/11, period.

[RickyJ]

Every time Ron Paul says they attacked us because we were over there I cringe. They didn't attack us on 9/11. I think Ron knows this but feels he can't admit it publicly.