Brad,
I agree with you that it was an act of mass murder that strengthened the Right...although some of the mass murderers may have been duped into the action because of animosity generated by US foreign policy (as well as the enticement of paradise, virgins, etc ;)
Anyone who saw this action as anti-imperialist and just, really needs to get their head checked, because they are sick.
-Thomas -----------------
Okay, as the first in the long line of malignant fucks, I'll try it again.
First there is no separation between an act of mass murder and an attack against Empire. That is the two are the same. That lack of separation makes it possible to have an ambivalent reaction. An act can be all together anti-empire and murder. The same problem follows through to the US govt reaction. Getting rid of al quaeda and bin Laden has freed Afghanistan from one grip of insane religious fanatics, yet the method was to slaughter several thousand people most of whom have nothing to do with either WTC or the Taliban.
These events have no moral high ground, anywere. To pretend they do is a delusion.
Chuck Grimes
ps. I am at work and will get back to this later.