With American military personnel now entering service who were not even alive on 9/11 this seems an appropriate time to reexamine the events of September 11 2001 the opaque motives for the attacks the equally opaque motives for the counter-offensive by the United States and its allies known as the Global War on Terror and the domestic fall-out for Americans concerned about the erosion of their civil liberties on the homefront.
Before venturing further its worth noting that our appraisal is not among the most common explanations. Osama bin Laden his lieutenants at Al-Qaeda and the men who carried out the attack against the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon are not crazy" unhinged psychopaths launching an attack against the United States without what they consider to be good reason.
Nor do we consider then-President George W. Bush to be either a simpleton a willing conspirator an oil profiteer or a Machivellian puppet whose cabinet were all too happy to take advantage of a crisis.
The American press tends to portray its leaders as fools and knaves and Americas enemies as psychopathic. Because the propaganda machine hammered away so heavily on the simple cowardly men who hate our freedom" line there was not much in the way of careful consideration of the actual political motives of the hijackers the Petro-Islam that funded them the ancient antagonistic split between Sunni and Shia the fall-out from the 1979 Iranian revolution or the 1970s energy crisis the historical context of covert American involvement in the Soviet-Afghan War and the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s nor the perceived imperialist humanitarianism" of American military adventures of the 1990s in Muslim nations like Bosnia Iraq Somalia and Kosovo. Alone none of these factors were deadly. Combined they provided a lethal combination.
It is our considered opinion that the events of 9/11 and those that followed in direct response to the attacks including the invasion of Iraq were carried out by good faith rational actors who believed they were acting in the best interests of their religion or their nation. There are no conspiracy theories here; sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
This opinion does not in any way absolve the principals from moral responsibility for the consequences of their actions. It does however provide what we believe to be a more accurate and nuanced depiction of events than is generally forthcoming from any sector of the media because we see these principals as excellent chess players who in the broad sweep of events engaged in actions which are explicable.
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With American military personnel now entering service who were not even alive on 9/11 this seems an appropriate time to reexamine the events of September 11 2001 the opaque motives for the attacks the equally opaque motives for the counter-offensive by the United States and its allies known as the Global War on Terror and the domestic fall-out for Americans concerned about the erosion of their civil liberties on the homefront.
Before venturing further its worth noting that our appraisal is not among the most common explanations. Osama bin Laden his lieutenants at Al-Qaeda and the men who carried out the attack against the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon are not crazy" unhinged psychopaths launching an attack against the United States without what they consider to be good reason.
Nor do we consider then-President George W. Bush to be either a simpleton a willing conspirator an oil profiteer or a Machivellian puppet whose cabinet were all too happy to take advantage of a crisis.
The American press tends to portray its leaders as fools and knaves and Americas enemies as psychopathic. Because the propaganda machine hammered away so heavily on the simple cowardly men who hate our freedom" line there was not much in the way of careful consideration of the actual political motives of the hijackers the Petro-Islam that funded them the ancient antagonistic split between Sunni and Shia the fall-out from the 1979 Iranian revolution or the 1970s energy crisis the historical context of covert American involvement in the Soviet-Afghan War and the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s nor the perceived imperialist humanitarianism" of American military adventures of the 1990s in Muslim nations like Bosnia Iraq Somalia and Kosovo. Alone none of these factors were deadly. Combined they provided a lethal combination.
It is our considered opinion that the events of 9/11 and those that followed in direct response to the attacks including the invasion of Iraq were carried out by good faith rational actors who believed they were acting in the best interests of their religion or their nation. There are no conspiracy theories here; sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
This opinion does not in any way absolve the principals from moral responsibility for the consequences of their actions. It does however provide what we believe to be a more accurate and nuanced depiction of events than is generally forthcoming from any sector of the media because we see these principals as excellent chess players who in the broad sweep of events engaged in actions which are explicable.
Continue reading The 9/11 Attacks: Understanding Al-Qaeda and the Domestic Fall-Out from Americas Secret War at Ammo.com.