On May 13, 2010, at 12:01 PM, martin wrote:
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> On May 13, 2010, at 7:14 AM, LBO News from Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> Anyway, I’ll drop this topic after this. But aside from the details
>> of the 9/11 obsession—the melting point of steel-type arguments—I
>> really don’t get the political point of it. Is American imperial
>> power just a ruse? A trick by a small cabal of plotters? Or
>> something that permeates the structures of global politics,
>> economics, and culture—even the insides of our minds?
>>
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> Are they mutually exclusive?
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The elephant in the room is this: The entire rationale for the
imperial war in Afghanistan is the 9/11 conspiracy theory (Cheney/
Obama version). Though craven acceptance of that theory does not
necessarily imply support for the war, it absolutely precludes making
any sort of convincing political case against it.
>> Well, Dick Cheney is gone, and things go on pretty much as before,
>> folks. Or do the plotters enjoy seamless and leakless transitions
>> of power?
With Bush-litebrown in the White House it looks quite seamless. Anything that can be called "state secret" or "national security" (and that, as far as Obama is concerned, means anything at all) remains quite leakproof.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64