As The Weekly Standard rightly notes this is a sad piece of conspiracy theory with no evidence for its claims. The Standard of course fails to identify the author (Paul Craig Roberts) or point out that the piece originally appeared at LewRockwell.com.
They do manage to ask Rand Paul to take a position on it, probably the only reason they covered it.
Do they have opinions on all the writings of Midge Decter, Frank Gafny, and anyone and everyone else published in neocon land?
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Update:
I was of course curious about what Ron Paul supporters would say about this. Would they double down and construct bizarre justifications of it as a knee jerk reaction to attacks by neoconservatives and others?
So last night at one of the perpetual DC libertarian happy hours, I asked someone, a friend and good person, who has worked for Ron Paul and his organizations for years:
Me: So what did you think of that Paul Craig Roberts article on the Ron Paul Institute website?
Ron Paul apparatchik: Awww….I think…that article…has some interesting points…at the beginning…and then made some more interesting points…and then just took a flying leap with no logic whatsoever…into conspiracy theory.
Third Person (who works for a non-Ron Paul, free market, organization): Paul Craig Roberts is crazy. It’s like he couldn’t get a job after the Reagan administration and he went crazy.
RPA: Paul Craig Roberts and Bruce Bartlett both couldn’t keep their careers going after the Reagan administration so they had lunch and decided to both become crazy ideologues, Roberts went with Alex Jones and Bartlett went with Paul Krugman.
TP: But Roberts went crazier because even Alex Jones says there is no evidence Charlie Hebdo was a “false flag” operation.
RPA: No one at The Ron Paul Institute asked my opinion before they published that piece.
Me: Maybe the editors in Tehran didn’t call you because it was long distance?
RPA: Tehran? You mean Russia? No Putin didn’t call either.
The conversation then devolved further into jokes about whether the Ron Paul Institute would be publishing new shirtless photos of Putin.
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P.S. I put so called “conspiracy theory” blogs in our blog roll, if they are intresting, if they aren’t anti-Semitic, if they cover other interesting topics, if they are published abroad and offer an international perspective. I haven’t put RPI in in part because I haven’t had time to monitor it and see if the bad outweighs the good.
The Insomniac Libertarian 
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