Kunstler has a different take on 9/11 than Michael Ruppert of FromTheWilderness.com, who believes Cheney is behind 9/11. They're both big Peak Oil doomsayers.
I met them both, and a lot of other Peak Oil luminaries, at the October Petrocollapse Conference in New York City.
From what I've been able to gather, I believe it's Cheney who's crazy -- like some kind of Dr. Strangelove. This is based on an assessment by John Perry Barlow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who worked with Cheney in Wyoming. Here's an excerpt from an interview he gave this summer (BTW, Barlow wrote the lyrics for the Grateful Dead song "Throwing Stones"):
Aaron Davis: What is the story behind “Throwing Stones”? You wrote that in Cora as well, right?
John Perry Barlow: Yeah. That’s the only explicitly political song we ever wrote. And the story behind that was that I was having a serious argument with Dick Cheney at that point, who I’d help get elected and been a pretty good congressman for the stuff that I was interested in, which was environmental stuff. We’d helped stop acid rain in the Wind River Mountains and passed the Wyoming Wilderness Act together and worked out a lot of the necessary compromises. He fished on my ranch and…we were co-conspirators.
But then he got into this obsession with the Russians and this conviction that we had a clash of cultures that had to be resolved by whatever means, and so he helped base the MX Missile in Wyoming. The original idea of the MX Missile was that it was a second-strike, retaliatory weapon that could not be taken out by a first strike because it would be running around on a vast railroad system kind of like a gigantic shell game, so the Russians wouldn’t know where the MX’s were. And the MX itself is an extremely destructive instrument. It has ten warheads, each one of which delivers 550 kilotons of explosive energy. And just for purposes of comparison, the bomb that completely leveled Hiroshima and took out half a million people in a second had only seventeen kilotons to give you some idea. So you can to the math. That’s just one missile. And the plan was to base 100 of them. And Dick was instrumental in seeing to it that they were not based in the original basing formula, which made them explicitly second strike, but that they were basically first strike weapons. They were completely naked and stationary and they were all put on launch on warning. And had all of those missiles gone, because some cloud of geese flew over a radar in Greenland, that would’ve been the end of all like on the planet. And I got so freaked out that somebody was so determined to win a political battle that he was literally willing to endanger all the life on planet Earth, that I felt like I had to say something…so I wrote that song. And like I say, I owe Dick a lot for that song.
http://www.planetjh.com/davis/davis_2005_07_27.htmlAnyway, I run Kunstler's weekly column on the World News Trust site and post it here on DU for your information. Cheers.