The Worst Attack on US Soil on September 11th 2001, What lessons have We learned?!
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In the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Oligarchs ignore the most important factor of the Graveyard of Empires aka Afghanistan: What's the Truth about the Real motivation of Terrorists to commit the 9/11 Attacks?! Authors Chalmers Johnson and Thomas Pape wrote about this instinctively. Ron and Rand Paul, Walter Jones, Jim Duncan, Dennis Kucinich, Thomas Massie also understood and studied these facts.
The American Public, Taxpayers, and Consumers bought into the Motive that the US Government ascribed, the Terrorists struck on September 11th because they hated America for its “Freedom and Values” or they were Muslims engaged in a centuries-old quest to establish a worldwide Islamic Caliphate that'd put the United States under Sharia Law.
• The Real Motive for the 9/11 Attacks was the deep anger and rage arising from the deadly, destructive, and humiliating US Wars for Oil in the Middle East after the end of the Cold War. RETALIATION Plain and Simple!
First Reason, if Wars of Aggression had never taken place in Central Asia, there never would've been the 9/11 Attacks, which in turn means there never would've been the Invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Second Reason, the Invasions and Occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan continued the deadly, destructive, and humiliating Wars of Aggression that produced the 9/11 Attacks in the first place.
The United States was a Limited-Government Republic. A Governmental System in which the Government’s Powers were limited to the Powers enumerated in the Constitution. The Founders didn't want a Government of Omnipotent Powers.
After World War II, Limited Government was abandoned in favor of a National Security State. The Government’s Powers included the powers of Assassination, Torture, Coups, Secret Mass Surveillance, Alliances with Dictatorial Regimes, and more.
National Security States depend on enemies or an environment of Crises to keep the US Citizenry afraid. People are willing — even eager — to keep the National Security State in existence, to expand its power, influence, and Tax-Funded largess.
The US National Security State’s official Enemy was the Soviet Union and “Godless Communism.” That was what the Cold War was all about. Americans were made to believe that there was an international Communist Conspiracy to take over the world that was supposedly based in Russia. Throughout the Cold War, the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA—i.e., the 3 principal components of the National Security State — grew in Power, Influence, and Tax-funded largess.
When the Cold War suddenly and unexpectedly ended in 1989, the US needed a new official enemy to replace the Soviet Union and “Godless Communism.” That enemy became Terrorism.
In order to make sure that Terrorism was frightening as Communism, Terrorist Attacks were needed to scare people. That’s where Foreign Affairs came into play. By killing, impoverishing, and humiliating countless people in the Middle East after losing its official Cold War enemy, the US Government were able to generate Terrorist retaliation against the United States that was then used to rile up and incite fear within the American Public.
The 1993 Attack on the World Trade Center, which was, in principle, no different from the 9/11 attacks 8 years later. The earlier Attack didn’t generate the same anger and fear that the 9/11 Attacks generated because there wasn’t the massive destruction and loss of life that came with the 9/11 Attacks.
When one of the 1993 Terrorists, Ramzi Yousef, was brought to Justice for his role in the 1993 Attack on the WTC, he angrily told the Federal Judge at his sentencing hearing that the reason he had acted was to retaliate for the death and suffering that the US Government was inflicting in the Middle East, especially with Sanctions on Iraq, contributing to the deaths of thousands of Iraqi Children, not to mention Iraqi Citizenry into poverty. Ramzi never cited hated for America’s “Freedom and Values” or any desire to establish a worldwide Islamic Caliphate.
Then there were the Terrorist Attacks on the USS Cole and the US Embassies in East Africa. Osama Bin Laden's Declaration of War against the United States, he cited the US Troops in Saudi Arabia as part of his Real Motivation.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright famously suggested in an interview that killing Half a Million Iraqi Children with Sanctions to remove Saddam Hussein was “Worth It.” It was an admission that the lives of innocents mean nothing to the Washington Oligarchs, they paint their murderous interventions as Humanitarian Liberation.
A Foreign Policy of Non-Interventionism
Imagine if the post-Cold War interference hadn't occurred, There never would have been the pre-9/11 Terrorist Attacks. More important, there wouldn’t have been the 9/11 Attacks. We would never have had the “Global War on Terror,” the USA PATRIOT Act, the illegal Telecom Scandal, the Torture and Prison center at Gitmo, the expansion of the State-Sponsored Assassination Program, the intrusive Pat-down Searches at Airports, the Mass Secret Surveillance, and all the other things that have come as a result of the 9/11 Attacks. We'd never have had the Invasions and Occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Many interventionists argue that the only problem with the Afghanistan bungling is that the US mismanaged the Occupation. They claim that it was right for the US Government to invade Afghanistan in the first place to retaliate for the 9/11 Attacks, that it just should’t have engaged in “Nation Building.”
They totally ignore the Real Motive that went into the Attacks and advocate a Foreign Police entailing “Smart” or “Prudent” interference which will continue to incite Anti-American Terrorism, which will produce more Anti-Terrorist Retaliation.
It's easier to Fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled. It's been rightly observed that; The daring Liars and Criminals are the ones that the American Public admires, yet they hate those who try to be tell them the Truth. After all, Truth is Treason in an Empire of Lies😁
In the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Oligarchs ignore the most important factor of the Graveyard of Empires aka Afghanistan: What's the Truth about the Real motivation of Terrorists to commit the 9/11 Attacks?! Authors Chalmers Johnson and Thomas Pape wrote about this instinctively. Ron and Rand Paul, Walter Jones, Jim Duncan, Dennis Kucinich, Thomas Massie also understood and studied these facts.
The American Public, Taxpayers, and Consumers bought into the Motive that the US Government ascribed, the Terrorists struck on September 11th because they hated America for its “Freedom and Values” or they were Muslims engaged in a centuries-old quest to establish a worldwide Islamic Caliphate that'd put the United States under Sharia Law.
• The Real Motive for the 9/11 Attacks was the deep anger and rage arising from the deadly, destructive, and humiliating US Wars for Oil in the Middle East after the end of the Cold War. RETALIATION Plain and Simple!
First Reason, if Wars of Aggression had never taken place in Central Asia, there never would've been the 9/11 Attacks, which in turn means there never would've been the Invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Second Reason, the Invasions and Occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan continued the deadly, destructive, and humiliating Wars of Aggression that produced the 9/11 Attacks in the first place.
The United States was a Limited-Government Republic. A Governmental System in which the Government’s Powers were limited to the Powers enumerated in the Constitution. The Founders didn't want a Government of Omnipotent Powers.
After World War II, Limited Government was abandoned in favor of a National Security State. The Government’s Powers included the powers of Assassination, Torture, Coups, Secret Mass Surveillance, Alliances with Dictatorial Regimes, and more.
National Security States depend on enemies or an environment of Crises to keep the US Citizenry afraid. People are willing — even eager — to keep the National Security State in existence, to expand its power, influence, and Tax-Funded largess.
The US National Security State’s official Enemy was the Soviet Union and “Godless Communism.” That was what the Cold War was all about. Americans were made to believe that there was an international Communist Conspiracy to take over the world that was supposedly based in Russia. Throughout the Cold War, the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA—i.e., the 3 principal components of the National Security State — grew in Power, Influence, and Tax-funded largess.
When the Cold War suddenly and unexpectedly ended in 1989, the US needed a new official enemy to replace the Soviet Union and “Godless Communism.” That enemy became Terrorism.
In order to make sure that Terrorism was frightening as Communism, Terrorist Attacks were needed to scare people. That’s where Foreign Affairs came into play. By killing, impoverishing, and humiliating countless people in the Middle East after losing its official Cold War enemy, the US Government were able to generate Terrorist retaliation against the United States that was then used to rile up and incite fear within the American Public.
The 1993 Attack on the World Trade Center, which was, in principle, no different from the 9/11 attacks 8 years later. The earlier Attack didn’t generate the same anger and fear that the 9/11 Attacks generated because there wasn’t the massive destruction and loss of life that came with the 9/11 Attacks.
When one of the 1993 Terrorists, Ramzi Yousef, was brought to Justice for his role in the 1993 Attack on the WTC, he angrily told the Federal Judge at his sentencing hearing that the reason he had acted was to retaliate for the death and suffering that the US Government was inflicting in the Middle East, especially with Sanctions on Iraq, contributing to the deaths of thousands of Iraqi Children, not to mention Iraqi Citizenry into poverty. Ramzi never cited hated for America’s “Freedom and Values” or any desire to establish a worldwide Islamic Caliphate.
Then there were the Terrorist Attacks on the USS Cole and the US Embassies in East Africa. Osama Bin Laden's Declaration of War against the United States, he cited the US Troops in Saudi Arabia as part of his Real Motivation.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright famously suggested in an interview that killing Half a Million Iraqi Children with Sanctions to remove Saddam Hussein was “Worth It.” It was an admission that the lives of innocents mean nothing to the Washington Oligarchs, they paint their murderous interventions as Humanitarian Liberation.
A Foreign Policy of Non-Interventionism
Imagine if the post-Cold War interference hadn't occurred, There never would have been the pre-9/11 Terrorist Attacks. More important, there wouldn’t have been the 9/11 Attacks. We would never have had the “Global War on Terror,” the USA PATRIOT Act, the illegal Telecom Scandal, the Torture and Prison center at Gitmo, the expansion of the State-Sponsored Assassination Program, the intrusive Pat-down Searches at Airports, the Mass Secret Surveillance, and all the other things that have come as a result of the 9/11 Attacks. We'd never have had the Invasions and Occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Many interventionists argue that the only problem with the Afghanistan bungling is that the US mismanaged the Occupation. They claim that it was right for the US Government to invade Afghanistan in the first place to retaliate for the 9/11 Attacks, that it just should’t have engaged in “Nation Building.”
They totally ignore the Real Motive that went into the Attacks and advocate a Foreign Police entailing “Smart” or “Prudent” interference which will continue to incite Anti-American Terrorism, which will produce more Anti-Terrorist Retaliation.
It's easier to Fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled. It's been rightly observed that; The daring Liars and Criminals are the ones that the American Public admires, yet they hate those who try to be tell them the Truth. After all, Truth is Treason in an Empire of Lies😁
