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Global Issues - 9/11Americans are still furious about the attacks on our soil and still feel lost and hopeless for the people who died and their families. We wanted something done about it. The U.S. had to go into Afghanistan — but lost track of its original objective, because the President treats it more like a psy-ops mind game and cultural suppression than a criminal investigation of mass murder, creating as much resentment as gratitude among the common Afghani people.
There are also significant questions of conflict of interest since the inevitable outcome of the strategically useless attack was that Afghanistan would be invaded, Bush's oil friends the Saudis will eventually profit, and China will have a stable energy source for its emerging market.
The anger of the American people was then directed by the President into Iraq. But now it seems like Iraq didn't have much to do with 9/11, and Saddam would have been easily crushed at any time if he made direct threatening moves. Although the American people are capable of taking on their new responsibility in Iraq and will live up to that responsibility, many Americans feel upset that a lot more innocent people have died because of the chaos we unleashed in Iraq than Americans who died on 9/11.
It seems the President has lit a fire under our feet, and we can't find any water to put it out. The water is love, and we need to remember: Love is the reason why we were angry. Love is the only thing that will stop the violence.
Even though our civil liberties and our state of freedom do create security vulnerabilities, we are not willing to give them up, because Americans are risk-takers who believe in themselves and their values and face their fears. We will not be bullied into submission by those who want a fascist government in the United States.
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It scares me that so many people refuse to consider the idea of a broader conspiracy behind 9/11 with deeper geo-political goals.After all, it was a conspiracy. This much is established fact. There were the guys on the planes, and the people who planned the attacks and financed them — that meets the definition of a conspiracy.
It scares me even more that so many people who do consider a deeper conspiracy automatically assume that George Bush and the CIA were behind the attacks, or at least let them happen, and that any theory about other global players who stand to benefit from our ensuing wars is met with the same bull-headed, fearful refusal to listen as the people who cannot hear the word "conspiracy" in the first place.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -FDR, 1933.
If we resort to fear, or allow our fear to be manipulated, the terrorists have won and our nation is doomed. If we seek fear for its thrill, in internal rebellion or external aggression, the terrorists have won and our nation is doomed.
We need to consider 9/11 in new terms. We need to "put all options on the table" in our thinking, so to speak, to consider who may have been involved and who benefits.
It may in fact be possible that a conspiracy exists within the U.S. government to aid a bizarre strategy of taking one on the chin to justify the boxing match.
Maybe Bush's business connections with the Bin Laden family should raise a lot of red flags, but maybe that only indicates that he was manipulated because he is gullible and simplistic.
I can imagine them being completely stupid, but I for one do not believe that all people in the government are against the citizenry, or that Bush or the CIA ordered the attack. If the buildings were rigged with explosives, I hope someone is trying to figure out who did it, and that they will tell us when the find out. It's a lot of secrecy to take on faith — that's why we are supposed to have a public government.
What we really need to focus on is Bin Laden's supposed "break" from his family in Saudi Arabia, and his training of muhajadeen fighters in Afghanistan by manipulating their religion in the same way we manipulated them against the Soviets.
What I believe is that Bin Laden never broke from his family at all, and that his religious piety is an act, a colossal hypocrisy. This is supported by the massive stock sales of U.S. airlines by Arab investors just prior to the attack. There was communication from Al-Qaeda through back-channels to their financial allies. This is also supported by the attendance of his stepmother, two brothers, and sister at his son's wedding in Afghanistan in 2001.
Bin Laden set in motion a series of events that had its inevitable conclusion in the invasion of Afghanistan. Why? Occam's Razor — the simplest explanation is probably right: The Taleban regime was opposed to wealth and opposed to the oil interests of the Bin Laden family and of Saudi Arabia. Saddam Hussein also refused to deal, trapped as he was in pseudo-prophetic egotism.
The House of Saud, sitting atop the largest oil reserve in the world, wishes to re-open the ancient route of trade with China, the largest oil consumer in the world, and build a massive pipeline to deliver oil to the east, because shipping it by boat will not meet China's projected demands in the future.
Did China collude with Saudi Arabia? Maybe so. It is certainly odd that rising China is the number one lender to the United States for the wars that are about to sink our economy. That can be seen as their "double happiness" — a traditional Chinese strategy.
You need to ask these questions. We cannot accept traditional answers and the "party line," because something does not add up.
Claims that the "Muslim mind" is so alien to us are a bunch of crap. Maybe for peasants and the working class Muslim that has some truth. But while the individual hijackers may have been motivated by Bin Laden's illusions, the motivation of the trillions of dollars that will be made with the Silk Pipeline seem a lot more attractive to most people — especially the aristocrats and business elites of Saudi Arabia and China. (China doesn't have aristocrats, you say, because they are Communist — again, a cultural myth, a load of crap.)
Meanwhile, citizens of the United States have allowed ourselves to become so factionalized, so trapped in our ways of thinking, and so angry at each other, that we don't notice that we're getting screwed over by external players.
This is why efficiency, locally produced bio-fuels, renewable energy and nuclear fusion are of the utmost strategic importance to the United States at this moment in history. We must pull the rug out from under Saudi Arabia and China, and make their ill-gotten gains and long term schemes useless to them, or we will be at their mercy.
If fusion is already possible, it should be revealed. Otherwise, we need massive investment in bio-fuels, especially carbon recycling and space-saving algae fuel.
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