[lbo-talk] Ward Churchill & 9-11

[chuck at mutualaid.org]

>
> Actually, even if 9/11 was carried out by people from oppressed and
> despised
> racial and national groups ( socalled brown people) , that event does
> _not_
> demonstrate that people from oppressed and despised races and groups can
> bring the U.S. government and its economy to its knees. Because the U.S.
> gov
> and econ are not on their knees as a result of 9/11. So, 9/11 doesn't
> demonstrate that, whoever did it.

 Ah, but they did! The U.S. economy was shut down for several days and it
was in recession for a long time afterwards. Look at the airline
industry. Look at the U.S. response. While I think there is a remote
possibility that officials in the U.S. government knew about the attacks,
the left has adopted the wrong analysis of the attacks. They have adopted
a racist analysis that relies on this crazy idea that the U.S. government
carried out these attacks. This makes all of us look bad. What's more, it
has turned into a dogmat where people who share my take are seen as
heretics.

9/11 showed how vulnerable the U.S. governmnet is. We should seize that as
encouragment to press forward with even more radical social changes.

Chuck