Mostly for Hazcat's benefit: Being someone who has spent several years in foreign countries, in the military and diplomatic corps... I fully understand and agree with RP. What Ron Paul was talking about is Blow-back... He didn't say we "deserved" 9-11. he didn't even say that specific actions caused 9-11. He said that a series of events , representative of our foreign policies and willingness to intervene... ie. emplace pupet leaders, commit murder and other atrocities mkased as suicides and unsolved misteries, or even to blame opposing factions in order to alter the outcome... has fostered a hatred among many (specifically Islamic radicals) that does nothing more than give them an excuse to attack us. Now, I personally beleive that they would find an excuse to attack us anyway, but the "blowback" that Ron Paul is referring to is making a point about or interventionist foreign policies... which are in conflict with the constitution and Republican ideals.
We funded and encouraged the revolutionists in Cuba then abandoned them in their hour of need. We supported Usam Bin Laden in the Afghan war.. and now he's our enemy. We Supported Suddam Hussein in the Iraq-Iran war and now he's our enemy( well, was our enemy). We placed the Shaw in charge of Iran by murdering his opponents, then gave him assylum when the country ousted him. There are even those who say the Gulf of Tonkin was a staged incident ( lord knows it never made sense to me).
This kind of dual sided intervension seems to be a huge part of our history... and it shouldn't be. The Republican party was founded to preserve the republic and its ideals, part of which was not complete isolationism, but it was based on minding alot of our business. Ron Paul is right. our current foreign policy is bankrupting us. In truth this country is going down fast and he's the only one that truly gets it. I think Fred is great, I even have his bumper sticker is on my car and still think he can win. But Ron is the only one that can can truly save the country from the path its on. And in the end will probably get my vote. I tried to play the game of voting for "who can win" and got surprized with Bush. Now its time to vote the truth and vote who I think is right.