georgephillip
Senator
14 years ago, al-Qaeda goaded the US into doing what it had neither the resources nor ability to accomplish.
" Fourteen years later, don’t you still find it improbable that George W. Bush and company used those murderous acts and the nearly 3,000 resulting deaths as an excuse to try to make the world theirs?
"It took them no time at all to decide to launch a 'Global War on Terror' in up to 60 countries. It took them next to no time to begin dreaming of the establishment of a future Pax Americana in the Middle East, followed by the sort of global imperium that had previously been conjured up only by cackling bad guys in James Bond films.
"Don’t you find it strange, looking back, just how quickly 9/11 set their brains aflame?
"Don’t you find it curious that the Bush administration’s top officials were quite so infatuated by the US military? Doesn’t it still strike you as odd that they had such blind faith in that military’s supposedly limitless powers to do essentially anything and be 'the greatest force for human liberation the world has ever known'”
http://www.thenation.com/article/14...plishing-everything-bin-laden-hoped-it-would/
Over the past 14 years radical Islam has carved a Texas-sized caliphate from the carcasses of Iraq and and Syria that's driven millions of Muslims across the Mediterranean, heading toward Europe. The West is reaping a whirlwind of its own creation.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/09/opinions/west-migrant-crisis-tisdall/
" Fourteen years later, don’t you still find it improbable that George W. Bush and company used those murderous acts and the nearly 3,000 resulting deaths as an excuse to try to make the world theirs?
"It took them no time at all to decide to launch a 'Global War on Terror' in up to 60 countries. It took them next to no time to begin dreaming of the establishment of a future Pax Americana in the Middle East, followed by the sort of global imperium that had previously been conjured up only by cackling bad guys in James Bond films.
"Don’t you find it strange, looking back, just how quickly 9/11 set their brains aflame?
"Don’t you find it curious that the Bush administration’s top officials were quite so infatuated by the US military? Doesn’t it still strike you as odd that they had such blind faith in that military’s supposedly limitless powers to do essentially anything and be 'the greatest force for human liberation the world has ever known'”
http://www.thenation.com/article/14...plishing-everything-bin-laden-hoped-it-would/
Over the past 14 years radical Islam has carved a Texas-sized caliphate from the carcasses of Iraq and and Syria that's driven millions of Muslims across the Mediterranean, heading toward Europe. The West is reaping a whirlwind of its own creation.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/09/opinions/west-migrant-crisis-tisdall/
