Ah. Another malignant fuck...

[Gordon Fitch]

Bradford DeLong wrote:
> >By people who think that in some way September 11 was "an attack
> >upon Empire," a "doing unto Empire as Empire has done unto you,"
> >rather than an act of mass murder, and one that substantially
> >strengthened the American right?

Doug Henwood:
> Ain't dat da troot! Not only has 9/11 strengthened the American
> right, it's reinforced some of the worst tendencies in the broader
> U.S. culture (xenophobia, patriotic self-righteousness, etc.) and
> it's done more to promote the development of Empire as a system of
> global rule than one could have imagined in 9/10. It's brought the
> U.S., Russia, and China together, at least for now. Blows against
> Empire? Hardly.

You're confusing effect with intention.

Besides, the final returns are never in.  A sustained campaign
of successful large-scale terrorist attacks on the United
States, spaced two or three years apart, might prove "successful"
from certain points of view after ten or twenty years.  If
we're fortunate we won't find out the hard way.

-- Gordon