[PEN-L:33607] global systems [was] pretty clear explanation, I think

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Clearly Al Qaeda have been the only partially conscious, but
indispensable players in this new scenario.

I think we should reject conspiratorialist explanations, but there is a
systems explanation here which we should grasp. Just as the two
superpowers operated as and in a global system up to the end of the 80's
so we are seeing a new global system emerge. We need to analyse the
contradictions and the dynamic. 

I think it is about the creation of a world state through a transitional
process in which there are sharp contradictions between the naked use of
force by bodies of armed men, and the need for some sort of ideology and
acquiesence or consent. The position of Britain is particularly
interesting because Blair is having to run very fast to paper over these
contradictions. 

But that is only one take. Any others?

Chris Burford

London


At 06/01/03 19:23 -0800, you wrote:
> EXPOSE': 9/11 as pretext for extreme
> agenda
>
> ...."The attacks of 11 September 2001 provided the "new Pearl
> Harbor", described as "the opportunity of ages". The
> extremists who have since exploited 11 September come from the era of
> Ronald Reagan, when far-right groups and "think-tanks" were
> established to avenge the American "defeat" in Vietnam. In the
> 1990s, there was an added agenda: to justify the denial of a "peace
> dividend" following the cold war. The Project for the New American
> Century was formed, along with the American Enterprise Institute, the
> Hudson Institute and others that have since merged the ambitions of the
> Reagan administration with those of the current Bush regime."
> www.newstatesman.co.uk
> http://pilger.carlton.com/print/124759
>
> New Statesman (London) 16 December 2002