Quote of the day
Right-wing convert Christopher Hitchens, on 9/11 (via Atrios):
“Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings, I felt something that I couldn?t analyze at first and didn?t fully grasp (partly because I was far from my family in Washington, who had a very grueling day) until the day itself was nearly over. I am only slightly embarrassed to tell you that this was a feeling of exhilaration [emphasis mine. -AJB]. Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.”
Amazing that right-wingers are finally admitting, as Atrios put it, that 9/11 “gave them a big stiffy.” This sickens me. But it’s the elephant in the room – the thing that everyone knows but no one, on either side, is willing to admit: 9/11 was the best damn thing that ever happened to the neocon agenda.
I think I’m going to go throw up.
That’s why I beieive they had something to do with it. Just too perfect for them.
Remember in the movie, The Long Kiss Goodnight, the whole “terroist” thing was really the CIA (?) planning the attack to increase funding. Is it that hard of a stretch to think that might actually happen in real life?
Someone i never met before made an offhand, by rather prophetic comment to me about five years ago. They were talking about the Oklahoma bombing and said that the US was going to see a lot more internal terroisim because there were a lot of people that could profit off it.
I just filed that comment away under, “Whatever.” But after 911 I really thought about it and it freaked me out.
I’ll offer to this my own belief of “half aggreement” with the idea that they (being the powers that be in the US) had something to do with 9/11. Simply put, they created the envirnment which created the event. As much as I believe that the underside of the government does plenty of highly questionable and sketchy things, I think that direct involvement in something such as the events of 9/11 are beyond even then, and if they had been I think they would have done a better job. That said, The actions and following inactions of the Reagan>Bush?Bush administrations I believe are heavily responsible for the chain of events that lead to that day, We used these people as pawns in the cold war, aligned ourselves with whoever would fight against our “enemy” (regardless of the merits of their movement), armed them, and then discarded them as soon as their usefullness was gone. As far as I can see, that’s a pretty good way to piss people off. The lesson I see in all this is that we ought to be a little more accountable for our actions, if we back people we should choose our allies a little more carefully (and less opportunistically) and once we offer support, we ought to live up to the promise, like in a romantic relationship, people do not forgot being “dumped”, and in this case the “dumped” decided to take revenge (while giving it other names, perhaps)