dude this is absolutely ridiculous.
are you guys listening to yourselves? you guys sound like fucking morons. does nobody use rational thinking anymore? is it a joke that you guys actually think in some way our government wanted 9/11??? that it had something to do with it???
you guys are confusing two related concepts that a fat fucking moron spread with his factually depleted movie.
The first concept is articulating foreign policy. For nearly 5 decades our government had a single enemy and we direct all of our foreign policy towards a bipolar system. We calculated our options given the check a bipolar system imposes, and designed our military and command structure toward avoiding nuclear annihilation.
When the berlin wall fell, Washington scrambled to comprehend the world and international politics. All of a sudden, where America competed against a rigorous rival, we now sat around more powerful than the rest of the world combined. While Clinton tested and pondered future courses of action, the media and Washington brain circles criticized him for lacking direction.
The W. administration wanted to better focus our foreign policy, aka finding an enemy. He was not the only one responsible for this, in fact in my opinion he had very little to do with trying to find an enemy. It was the American people, the people who least like to absorb responsibility for their individual actions, that hungered for an enemy.
If you examine popular culture through the 90's (for example look at tom clancy books, james bond movies, tv shows, gi joe figures, etc) it was clear the american people were looking for an enemy. After all, for nearly everyone alive on the planet in the last 2 decades, their entire lives were spent thwarting a single unified enemy. This 50 year struggle became embedded in our culture, entrenched in our mindsets, and shaped our paradigms. Its pretty damn hard to change culture that has been 5 decades in the making.
So its no wonder the Bush administration looked for an enemy. After 9/11 we tried to focus and make it the Global War on Terror. This was perhaps a mistake in hindsight. After all, terrorists arent states and they dont have conventional armies. Intellectuals quickly picked up this faulty approach to terrorism, even if the hundreds of thousands that make up our federal bureaucracy did not.
Also, I will admit, Bush inherited a list of countries that America could focus its foreign policy against and Iraq was at the top of the list. Im positive evidence, legitimacy, and motive to invade iraq were probably missing, yet its hard to change the mindset of a 50 year old institution. It was impulsive, even if the ends justified the means.
But this type of logical fallacy in no way means the government somehow orchestrated 9/11 or had anything to do with it whatsoever.
jesus fucking christ. ask yourself some questions. Why would a 3 trillion dollar institution kill 3000 people to invade a country it was going to invade anyway, and burn down a building that was only insured for 11 billion dollars??
Why would dick cheney go after oil when he can't acquire revenue while serving? Theres not that many fucking oil companies. its just a coincidence halliburton was contracted. Think about how many things in govt involve oil. Maybe the american people should have thought of that before they knowingly elected an oil businessman.
How on earth would this be beneficial for ANYONE??? EVEN IF THE GOVT WANTED TO MAKE MONEY BY EXPANDING ITS MILITARY, 9/11 CAUSED A MAJOR ECONOMIC CRASH IN ITS IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH, WHICH IN PART CONTRIBUTED TO THE 2008 CRASH. THIS DETERIORATES OUR TAX BASE AND REDUCES TAX REVENUE. NOT TO MENTION BURDENING THE GOVT W ECONOMIC PROBLEMS.
USE YOUR BRAINS
it is so sickening to see people advancing this idea, built upon legitimate questioning, and even more for otherwise rational people to buy into it.
either way, i dont want to waste
