Why does he have so much faith in the Islamist-infested Pakistani security forces? Especially when considering they’ve almost certainly been sheltering him since 9/11.

(Politico) — Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) refused on Sunday to back down from comments last week that the United States should have informed the Pakistani government that American officials knew where Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was hiding.

“Why are we having trouble with the [Pakistani] government, why are we stirring up a civil war in Pakistan? It’s because we’ve been bombing it,” Paul said on “Fox News Sunday.”

The libertarian Paul, who’s running again for the Republican presidential nomination, said his opposition to the U.S. mission to kill bin Laden demonstrates the principles of his non-interventionist foreign policy.

The Obama administration should have relied on the Pakistani government to arrest bin Laden and turn him over to U.S. authorities, Paul said.