[Marxism] If Cheney and Company had really (reformatted)

["Charles Brown" <charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Plotted the 9/11 Attacks ...
 
 Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>I keep coming back to my suspicion that most conspiracist thinking is
>deeply racist. One can't believe that some stupid Arab such as bin Laden
>could have pulled off such a marvelous feat as 911. Must have been those
>brilliant white men in D.C.

I suppose Comrade Cox would have made a similar argument in the mid 
1980s concerning the distribution of Crack:

"I keep coming back to my suspicion that most conspiracist thinking 
is deeply racist. One can't believe that some Black guys could have 
pulled off such a marvelous feat as creating a multi-billion dollar 
drug industry out of whole cloth right under the government's nose. 
Must have been those brilliant white men in D.C."

Solidarity,
Shawn

^^^^^^
CB: I agree with Comrade Shawn.   As a Black person 
and an anti-racist
 activist I find this 
one to be off.  Also, I
 donât know of one 
Black person who 
thinks itâs racist to 
posit US influence
 in whatever happened 
on 9/11.  Furthermore, 
the most direct 
racism would be
 blaming 20 Arabs 
if they didn't do it 
or making the front 
for something
 that involved 
Americans. Certainly,
 it increases anti-Arab

 racism in the US.  
For one thing,  
bin Laden was 
one of Reaganâs
 âfreedom fightersâ 
while the US was 
supplying the 
reactionary
 terrorist gang, counter-revolutionaries/contras in Afghanistan with
 shoulder stinger 
missiles and other
 high tech weaponry
 that allowed them 
to defeat the Soviet
 Army which was 
supporting a revolutionary government in Afghanistan not unlike the one in
 Nicaragua that
 had to deal with contras. Anyway, once a CIA property always a CIA 
property, so do we
 know that bin Laden is not still some kind of US 
agent ?  Heâs a reactionary and Bush is a reactionary. Birds of a feather.   
And if we
 ask âCui bono ? â about 9/11, both Bush and
 US imperialism 
and bin Laden 
and Islamic reaction 
benefited from it. 
 Bush was able to 
get everything he
 wanted from Congress
 under the pall of 
9/11 terror and fear, and Reaganism got a few extra years of life out of it.  
Bushâs attack on
 the two Middle 
Eastern countries 
was exactly what 
bin Laden wanted 
to ramp up more 
hatred of the US and
 recruit more people
 to his reactionary
 movement.     Why 
is it that Bush has
 failed to capture
 bin Laden , âdead 
or alive ?â Why is
 it that bin Laden 
seems to release 
video tapes at times 
when the impact of
 them on US politics
 benefits the US
 righwing ? All this is circumstantial evidence
 as far as the specifics 
of the physics of
 the Towers falling
 and all that.  But it is
 a reason not to dismiss suspicions about the 
official story of 9/11,
 whether it means 
considering 9/11 lite
 theories or otherwise.  

And on the political point, the 
reason to give credence to '
Bush administration connections 
to bin Laden , and 9/11 at the '
level of "letting it happen" by , as
 Shane points to, not intercepting
the planes when they deviated
from the normal commercial routes, particularly reaching the 
Pentagon without intercept, is that
it could undermine many American's blind faith in their 
government as benevolent.




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