Politics of 9/11

To begin with a quote:

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

~Larry Hardiman

That being said, I stumbled upon a very interesting article pulished yesterday in an on-line magasine, Newtopia.  The author, David Ray Griffin, presents some very interesting arguments on the driving domestic forces behind the terrorist attack that took place in 2001.

This is only a brief snippet.  The full article is very much more interesting...

Four Interpretations

If “American empire” is understood in different ways, the same is all the more true of the term “9/11.” For those Americans who accept the official interpretation, 9/11 was a surprise attack on the US government and its people by Islamic terrorists.

For some Americans, “9/11” has a more complex meaning. This second group, while accepting the official interpretation of the attacks, thinks of 9/11 primarily as an event that was used opportunistically by the Bush administration to extend the American empire. This interpretation is effectively presented by writers such as Noam Chomsky, Rahul Mahajan, and Chalmers Johnson.

For a third group of Americans, the term “9/11” connotes an event with a more sinister dimension. These citizens believe that the Bush administration knew the attacks were coming and intentionally let them happen. Although no national poll has been taken to ascertain how many Americans hold this view, a Zogby poll surprisingly indicated that almost half of the residents of New York City do.

According to a fourth view of 9/11, the attacks were not merely foreknown by the Bush administration; they were orchestrated by it. Although thus far no poll has tried to find out how many Americans hold this view, polls in Canada and Germany some time back indicated that this view was then held by 15 to 20 percent of their people.

Comments

[Penny]

Make no mistake, as an American, I firmly believe that Bush allowed this to occur. After all, he needed to vindicate Daddums' first attempt, didn't he?? And, lets face it, he needed a quick stamp on his already well- hatched plan to rout those bastards that gave his Daddy grief....I, for one, am not so naive as to believe that the Gummint is actually working for ME.... Penny

[Simon]

Penny, articles like that scare me a little for the future and almost make me yearn for the relatively secure nuclear stalemate of the cold war.