"That the Bush administration gained from it, true. That but doesnt seem to tell you anything. I just says that they are one of the power system of the world that gain from it. Did they plan it anyway or know anything about it. This seems to me *extremely* unlikely. For one thing they would have had to been insane to try anything like that. If they had, its almost certain it would have leaked. Its a very porous system. Secrets are very hard to keep. Something would have leaked out very likely. And if it had, they all would have been before firing squads, and that would be the end of the Republican Party forever.
To take a chance on that, just, even if you could control what would
furthermore, its was completely unpredictable what was going to happen. You couldnt predict that the plane would actually hit the World trade center. It happened that it did, but it could easily have missed. You can hardly control it. But what you can be almost certain of is that any hint of a plan would have leaked. And would have just destroyed them. And to take a chance on something like that would be just meaningless.
Theres a big industry in the United States, on the left as well. You should see the Email that I get. There a huge internet industry from the left trying to demonstrate that there are books coming out, best sellers from France and so on. That this was all faked and planned by the Bush administration and so one.
But if you look at the evidence, anyone that knows anything about the sciences would instantly discount that evidence. There are plenty of coincidences and unexplained phenomenon, why did this happen, why didnt that happen and so on. But if you look at a controlled scientific experiment, the same thing is true.
When someone carries out a controlled scientific experiment, at the best laboratories, at the end there are lots of things that are unexplained. And there are funny coincidences and this and that. If you want to get a sense of it take a look at the letters columns in the technical scientific journals. Like Nature or Science or something. The letters are commonly about unexplained properties of reports of technical experiments carried out under controlled conditions. Which are just going to leave a lot of things unexplained. Thats just the way the world is.
When you take a natural event, not something that controlled, most of it will be unexplained. There will be all sorts of things that happen. Afterwards you can put it into some kind of pattern, but before hand you cant. The kind of pattern may be completely meaningless, you can put them into some other pattern too if you want. Thats just the way complicated events are.
So the evidence thats been produced, in my opinion, is essentially worthless. And the belief that it *could* have been done is so, has such low credibility that I dont really think its serious. "
-Noam Chomsky