Too Much Ron Paul? NYT Thinks So.
The NYT was not too happy about the amount of exposure Ron Paul got on Saturday night:
But Mr. Gibson withdrew whenever the discussions grew heated. And by not intervening more forcefully early on in the Republican debate, he allowed much of their discussion to remain staid and uninformative — Representative Ron Paul, of all candidates, dominated the foreign policy debate.
Of all people? Would they have preferred more Huckabee, the man who was clueless about the contents of the NIE report, or more Giuliani, who hadn’t read the 9/11 Comission Report nearly six years after it’s release.
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January 8, 2008 at 12:53 am
About the ABC debate…
Mitt and Huckabee name dropped Sayyid Qutb during the debate to ?educate? Ron Paul about the writings of this man. They dropped his name to help prove their point that Islamo-fascism has nothing to do with our foreign policy. What you need to know about Sayyid Qutb is that he was very radical to be sure and got thrown in jail in Egypt for plotting to overthrow their government. While in jail for years he was tortured. When he came out he was even more radical. The key point in his story is that the Egyptian prison guards were trained by our CIA.
So in my opinion, Mitt and Huck mentioning this guys name is ironic because it helps prove Ron?s point that when we meddle into other nation?s affairs, it comes back to haunt us in terms of blowback. The CIA exporting torture methods is not a good export for the US.
If you want to learn more about Sayyid Qutb and the beginnings of radical Islam AND the neoconservatives, watch part 1 of The Power of Nightmares, a BBC documentary.
From the debate transcript:
ROMNEY: I’d read what they write to one another. And that’s why when someone like Sayyid Qutb lays out the philosophy of radical jihadism
HUCKABEE: And if you read the writings of those who most influenced — and Governor Romney mentioned Sayyid Qutb, executed in Egypt in 1966. He is one of the major philosophers behind this.