Christian Democrats in the United States

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 1:37 PM

attack on the pentagon

There are plenty of "out there" sites out there which examine the available evidence, of which there is little that could not be forged, and see in the video that a missile hit the Pentagon, not a plane. But from there, the predominant conspiracy theory point of view draws the conclusion that elements within the government staged the attack, in order to justify U.S. "imperialist" expansion in south Asia and the middle east.

That second conclusion is not so "obvious" even if we assume that a missile did hit the Pentagon, and not a plane. The angle of attack is nearly if not exactly parallel to the trajectory of an anti-aircraft missile battery that is, according to one video, buried in the lawn on the hill below the road.

But if a missile was fired from the battery into the building, it does not mean Donald Rumsfeld pulled the trigger, regardless of how much one may dislike the man. Well, what do we know, but it could equally well have been a hacker attack against the targeting computer, which probably was hooked up to a network shared by other systems in the craze for I.T. efficiency in the 1990's... which was still only a way to spend money by paying attention to the wrong details.

That's a scary prospect, and one that the DoD would not want advertised, or the world's hackers would go after their anti-aircraft systems before they patched. Once a lie, why not keep it quiet. The attacker would not want to publicize either, to keep their perceived advantage of fear.

Well, as far as conspiracy theories go, it's as equal a prospect if not more likely, given the "too many cooks" approach of boardroom design in government bureaucracy which sometimes overlooks glaring problems in the elegant structures of its social construct. The mental edifice of that work environment is so structured and impressive, difficult to learn and impossible to escape from, that surely it must be invulnerable. Once a person gives into the supremacy of their environment over their mind, they cease to become a person and only act the role of a kind of playback device, only responding to stimuli like a sea creature poked with an electrode. To some degree people who submit to such a structure can never see outside of their own rules, and become dominated by them. Those who actively seek how to sidestep and skip over those rules then have a significant tactical advantage.

But what I want to know is, why so many conspiracy dupes are so quick to jump on the bandwagon and point the finger at the people in those boardrooms. Maybe they're just imperfect people trapped in an imperfect system. Well, it's possible all that power corrupts all that much, certainly, and someone in the Pentagon was very very bad. But I don't see any direct evidence of that. It's equally possible that the people in the Pentagon and the people who made the missile control system were just idiots, and they invented a hijacking story to explain what they could not explain to the American people.

But if something like that is the case, by not admitting the truth, the Department of Defense could not defend the United States, and would lose the battle of the real war: the people would divide against themselves, and the conspiracy nuts at home would do the job of those foreign interests far better than they could. The flames would only need a little fanning here and there, at this rally or that protest, and the people would turn on the government.

It's certainly a vulnerability -- I'm glad we're smart enough not to have broken apart about 9/11. But it stinks that this cadre of jerks took advantage of all of that for their own agendas. And it stinks that those well-crafted agendas, the result of decades of political manipulation of American politicos with oil money, are subsequently in the interests of foreign countries which may have had their fingers in the attacks of that day.

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