Fourteen years later, the horrors of 9/11 continue with deadly ripple effects. American militarism has become the dominant position of U.S. foreign policy, while other options remain banished to the sidelines. Yet from the outset of the “war on terrorism,” some Americans spoke out against a militarized response to the terrible events on Sept. 11, 2001.
Conventional wisdom presents the “war on terrorism” — proclaimed by President George W. Bush and maintained under President Barack Obama — as the only practical response to 9/11. Fighting terrorism has been the main rationale for all U.S. military interventions since then, spinning the Pentagon’s machinery into overdrive despite the absence of clearly identified foes or geographical boundaries.
Even the most prominent warnings against such an approach were marginalized and vilified in the wake of Sept. 11. And those warnings have been buried by the U.S. media as though they never occurred, even though their concerns have proved prescient. The U.S. has spent trillions of dollars on military interventions across the Middle East, and yet the region is more violent and turbulent than ever.
Since the United States rarely leaves completely anywhere its military has been — for example, Europe, Japan, Korea, and now Afghanistan and Iraq — it is hard for the public to avoid the fear of the resulting consequences!
The War on Terror, The Cold War, Manifest Destiny, Its all the same thing, Imperialism. An empire always needs a fresh new boogeyman to justify its quest for world domination. Geronimo, the Kaiser, Castro, Bin Laden, Putin, all paper tigers, red herrings, convenient excuses for mass bloodshed and all that filthy money that comes with it.
The real War on Terror is the war against empire. The war against war. Its a struggle that never ends. A Jihad for justice and peace. There will always be terror and there will always be empires and there will always be hope as long as there's brave souls, crazy enough to take on the cowards and speak the truth!
NEVER SHUT UP!!! together we are louder then bombs!
Fourteen years later, the horrors of 9/11 continue with deadly ripple effects. American militarism has become the dominant position of U.S. foreign policy, while other options remain banished to the sidelines. ——
Perhaps the logic of this writer is exactly backwards? Perhaps, just perhaps, "American militarism" becoming "the dominant position of U.S. foreign policy", was exactly the point and purpose for 9/11 in the first place?
To substantiate this hypothesis one need only read much of what the new-cons had written, starting (but by no means limited to) the PNAC documents. PNAC, whose founding members included Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, advocated for increased military spending, the overthrow of Saddam, and the U.S. Military being capable and ready to fight in multiple theatre wars (like for instance Iraq and Afghanistan) and also be able to fulfill our "constabulatory duties" (occupation of the same).
9/11 allowed them to implement their plan and get the funding from Congress to do just that. Whatever you believe we can all agree that 9/11 caused trillions of dollars to change hands starting with the insider trading that was widely reported in the mainstream media and swept under the rug by the 9/11 Commission to all the defence spending and defense contracts that followed.
One need not dig very far the see that those yapping about fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here are the same ones who have positioned themselves to make money from fighting them anywhere.
Many good and smart people in the anti-war movement I find have a particular blind spot to 9/11. They just don't want to go there. The more you know about 9/11 and all the official investigations that followed the less believable the official story becomes.
I don't buy most 911 conspiracy theories, in fact I'm not completely sure I buy any but there remains the strong possibility that like Pearl Harbor these events were foreseen and allowed to occur for strategic purposes.
The scariest thing about this, to me at least, is how little it would actually take to make this happen. In our age of unparalleled executive power, it would only take a hand full of powerful people in the right places with the right connections to look the other way, stand down and let catastrophe happen, no missiles, no demolition, no Manchurian candidates, just the crushing power of the state, operating with total plausible deniability. Weather or not this actually happened is besides the point. The very fact that its possible is terrifying, in and of itself.
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