[lbo-talk] LBO News from Doug Henwood

Voyou voyou1 at gmail.com
Thu May 13 11:16:16 PDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 13:53 -0400, Shane Mage wrote:
> On May 13, 2010, at 1:16 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
>
> > Shane: "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)."
> >
> > [WS:] The logic of the above escapes me altogether.
> >
> Haven't you heard *any* of Obama's speeches about why we're "at war"
> in Afghanistan?

So, your position is that the existence of the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan is a fiction disseminated by the US government? I applaud the ambition of your conspiracy theorizing.

The problem I have with 9/11 conspiracy theories is that they're so conventional. Why put so much effort into "proving" that the US government destroyed US buildings or manufactured excuses for war? We already know that this is exactly the sort of thing the US government would do: there are clearly documented cases of them doing both these things (the MOVE bombing, the Nigerian yellowcake); why not focus on these cases, rather than the much more dubious case of 9/11?

If you are going to invent implausible theories, why not invent exciting ones: the Twin Towers never existed, and were a MK-ULTRA mind-control projection right from 1966, say.

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