It’s of poor taste for Rudy Guiliani to be running for the White House not only on foreign affairs, but as being mayor during 9/11, and be so unfamiliar with the lingo and views of the CIA. It belies a greater problem with Mr. Giliani’s ability to stay educated on a central issue to him; terrorism.

One can debate the finer points of what the global conflict is, and what it means, but Rudy Guiliani doesn’t even understand the terminology being thrown around.

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The question posed was not “Who is responsible?” Except for the 9/11 conspiracy folks, most people agree that “Bin Laden” is the answer to that question. The question posed here is “Why did Bin Laden attack and how was he able to garner so much support?” Guiliani and his ilk say that it is because they hate our freedoms, even though I have never seen any evidence to support that view. Ron Paul said that it was blowback for our Middle Eastern policies, and there is a lot of evidence to support that, including words from the Bin Laden’s mouth himself.

There are passages in the Bible that support slavery and incest, yet not all Christians support slavery and incest. The troubles in Kosovo show that Christians can be just as good at terrorizing Muslims as the reverse.

In 1786, Thomas Jefferson, then ambassador to France, and John Adams, then ambassador to Britain, met in London with Tripoli’s ambassador, Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja. Jefferson and Adams asked by what right the Barbary States preyed upon American shipping, enslaving crews and passengers.

Adja replied that the actions of the Islamic nations were “… founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every [Muslim] who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION OF PACIFISTS (1942)

Islam’s jihad is a struggle against idolatry, sexual deviation, plunder, repression and cruelty. The war waged by [non-Islamic] conquerors, however, aims at promoting lust and animal pleasures. They care not if whole countries are wiped out and many families left homeless. But those who study jihad will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. All the countries conquered by Islam or to be conquered in the future will be marked for everlasting salvation. For they shall live under [God's Law] . . . .

Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back untill they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them [the non-Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]. Does this mean sitting back until [non Muslims] overcome us? Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you! Does this mean that we should surrender to [the enemy]? Islam says: Whatever good there is exists that to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to paradise, which can be opened only for holy warriors!

There are hundreds of other [Koranic] psalms and hadiths [sayings of the prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all that mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.

Quoted in Bostom, ” The Legacy of Jihad and the Fate of the Non-Muslims” Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY 2005

Note: This statement was made before the US invaded Iraq for the second time, or the first time. It was made before the US, at the request of the government of Saudi Arabia stationed US troops in Saudi Arabia to defend it against Saddam Hussein and the Muslim Brotherhood. It was made before the ouster of Mohammed Mossadegh as Prime Minister of Iran in 1953. It was made before the Declaration of the State of Israel of its independence in 1948. Therefore, one must ask, what is it that the US did, which was responsible for Khomeini’s statement? Fight against the Barbary Pirates?

What about now? As Gary Sick has said: “Ahamdinejad sees himself as emulating his great mentor Khomeini.”

The notion that we are responsible for 9/11 is the silly notion of the Blame America First crowd on the left of the political spectrum. The Muslim quest for world domination was interrupteed in 1638 following the battle for Vienna. It has now resumed, supported by petrodollars, See Dore Gold, Hatred’s Kingdom.