And the stupidity continues...
It recently came to my attention that there are still a lot of people buying into the '9/11 conspiracy' theory. You know -- the one that says the U.S. government staged 9/11 in order to...well, who knows? Make Halliburton profitable? Start a war with the wrong country? Obtain control of an oil supply that cannot yet be fully accessed due to prior damage and the aforementioned war?
I'm not going to bother to dignify the theories with links. Let's just say there is one question these theories always fail to answer with any degree of reasonableness:
Why? Why would the United States government kill over 3000 of its own citizens?
Bush was going to war with Iraq even before 9/11 happened. Besides, if they wanted to do this and blame Iraq, they would have made sure all those 'fake' hijackers came from Iraq instead of Saudi Arabia. Halliburton was well-off before 9/11...and let's just say there are easier ways to raise the value and profit of a company aside from engaging in a worldwide conspiracy. I'm sure if they'd asked one of the world's many billionaires, one of them could have given them some suggestions.
As for the so-called "evidence" that things didn't happen the way the government says they did, I'm not going to bother picking them apart. Others have done it for me, as this previous post indicates.
Let's put aside the fact that these idiots aren't mechanical engineers, physicists, aeronautical engineers, architects, firefighters, munitions experts or demolitions experts for the time being. Let's even put aside that the vast majority of them would have their questions answered if they had ever bothered to visit Ground Zero and look at all the damage themselves over the past five years.
Instead, let's assume the tinfoil-hatters are right: things didn't happen exactly the way the government says they did. That's fine -- and actually relatively unsurprising, considering the way this administration handles anything they deem 'national security information.' The question remains: to what end?
The only explanation that makes sense is that the truth is too embarrassing to reveal. I could accept that too. But it's one thing to accuse the government of incompetence. It's another to accuse them of treason and mass-murder of its own innocent citizens.
No matter how I may or may not feel about the Bush administration, that is too absurd an accusation to take seriously. Bush may believe the Rapture is coming soon, but that's not a solid motive either. He may be deliberately ignorant, but nobody is THAT stupid.
The CIA and United States government are not omiscient, omnipotent entities. They can (and often do) make gigantic mistakes. As a student of psychology, I am well aware that large groups often are much clumsier and dumber than individuals. They can't see everything, or react to everything in their environment intelligently. So claiming they 'would have seen it coming' had they not been responsible is like claiming that if Nostradamus was so precognitive, he would have predicted his own death.
Okay, maybe that was a bad analogy. But you know what I mean.
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