Chuck, the official story *is* precisely 'that the world's biggest superpower was virtually helpless in stopping the 9/11 attacks' (and furthermore, that we therefore need war without end and proscription of civil liberties.)
Joe W.
>From: Chuck0 <chuck at mutualaid.org>
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>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Mr. Churchill
>Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 11:08:16 -0600
>
>snit snat wrote:
>
>>well, here's the context. The Clinton administration took warnings like
>>that very seriously. The Bush administartion apparently did not. Neither
>>one is more racist than the other. So, taking them seriously had very
>>little to do with racism. Furthermore, the Busheviks DID take very
>>seriously the threat against Genoa earlier that summer and went to great
>>lengths to make sure the presdinet was safe there. So, it wasn't that they
>>didn't believe something could happen because they had believed that
>>'little brown people' were too incompetent to pull it off. IT's the most
>>absurd thing I've ever heard given that those same 'little brown people'
>>had already tried to blow up the WTC, had tried to attack the u.s. New
>>Year's 2000, the Cole, etc. etc. Racism does not explain why they ignored
>>a warning about Al Q striking in the u.s.
>
>Kelley, Kelley. The first WTC attack, the Cole, and other incidents were
>just background noise as far as those in power were concerned. The state
>expects these kinds of small scale terrorism. The assumption is that these
>kinds of attacks are hard to pull off and the probablity the perps will be
>intercepted before they succeed to be favorable to the state. The racist
>arrogance comes into play when it is assumed that the "terrorists" don't
>have the smarts or wherewithal to seriously inflict damage on the country.
>
>I think that it's important to be skeptical of the official story, but I
>find it to be more fascinating that the world's biggest superpower was
>virtually helpless in stopping the 9/11 attacks. The important lesson to
>draw from this is that even superpowers aren't all powerful and that they
>can be seriously disrupted by small measures (see Fallujah and Vietnam).
>
>I just can't buy the conspiracy theories that the U.S. government organized
>the attacks or permitted them to happen. This line of thinking is based on
>the false idea that states are all powerful and all-seeing. I was on the
>streets of Washington, DC shortly after the attacks. The American state was
>clearly in a state of chaos.
>
>Chuck
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