BuzzFeed's Andrew Kacyzinski notes that Ron Paul, a long-serving confidante of potential presidential candidate Rand Paul, recently stated the United States was not interested in capturing Osama bin Laden following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 because doing so would have limited the ability of the George W. Bush administration to wage unlimited war in the middle east:
"Matter of fact, can’t you just see the difference that might have occurred. Ya know, they knew where Bin Laden was. I don’t think they really wanted to catch him because he was used as the excuse for us, you know, invading various countries and building up the military," Paul said on Scott Horton’s radio program.
It is worth noting that this view does not skew too far from Sen. Paul's own Chomskyite view of America's post-9/11 activities. The Ron Paul Institute has a history of publishing op-eds espousing arguments aligned with the 9/11 Truth movement.