The Realities of September the 11th

[unhappycamper]

Bush gets the word that America is under attack on September 11, 2001: Whatever one believes about its causes, few would argue that the world hasn't been dramatically altered by the horrific attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Towers.


The Realities of September the 11th
By Néstor Núñez
Translated By Halszka Czarnocka
September 7, 2007

The world still remembers the face of George W. Bush when - children’s book in hand and surrounded by primary school students in Florida - someone whispered into his ear that the country was under attack.

It was September 11, 2001, and for long minutes the President’s face bore a ridiculous expression of indecision and ignorance. Soon, as the days passed, it became evident that the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon using civilian aircraft as missiles had become the great pretext for applying neoconservative precepts on a great scale.

The episodes to come - in Afghanistan and Iraq - obeyed that "Washingtonian logic" of "fighting terrorism on a global scale" and granting the White House carte blanche to launch attacks on anyone in any "dark corner" of the planet.

Domestically, this made it possible to violate the rights and privacy of citizens, persecute and accuse on the basis of every kind of unsubstantiated rumor, and deploy massive amounts of troops and resources to adventures in Central Asia, which in the long run are slaughterhouses for both invaders and invaded. Finally, this "global War" is a lucrative business for oil companies and Pentagon contractors.

Six years after those events and confronted with benefits of all kinds that have rained down on the most reactionary groups in the United States, few people doubt that something dirty is afoot.



Rest of article at: http://www.watchingamerica.com/ahora000001.shtml

[OneBlueSky]

1. "few people doubt that something dirty is afoot " . . .

very succinct, very accurate summary of the realities of 9/11 . . .

the question that remains -- but that we all know the answer to -- is "Who benefited?" . . .