9-11 Review: 9-11-01 as a Pretext for U.S. Imperialism
I agree. Islam and Shariah law are incompatible with democracy. But you forget, the Arab Spring is a product of Obamaloney, not Bush.
Bush and his Neo-Con buddies are the ones that kept yelling & screaming about giving the Arab world democracy & freedom.
They started this shit. They are the ones who got the West thinking in these terms.
They are the ones who got the West supporting these ideas.
And they STILL think we should "give" democracy & freedom to Syria and Iran.
idiots, they will reap what they sow.
9/11/01 as a Pretext for U.S. Imperialism
The 9/11/01 attack served as a general-purpose pretext for imperialist ventures that were planned years in advance of the attack. Deployments for the attack on Afghanistan began within days of the attack. When the attack failed to produce the capture of the alleged perpetrator of the 9/11/01 attack, Osama bin Laden, the administration shifted blame for the attack to Iraqi President Saddam Husein, and commenced its invasion and occupation of Iraq.
The Project for a New American Century, a think-tank including of some of the core policy advisors for the Bush Administration, articulated the need for a "new Pearl Harbor" in the policy paper Rebuilding America's Defenses just one year before 9/11/01. The paper also forshadowed the use of Saddam Hussein as a pretext for invasions of Central Asia.
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title: Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces and Resources for a New Century
authors: Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Dov Zakheim, William Kristol, et.al.
... Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolunionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor. ...
... While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein ...
site:
Welcome to the Project for the New American Century page:
www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
The paper also looked with seeming approval to the use of biological warfare as a political tool.
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title: Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces and Resources for a New Century
authors: Paul Wolfowitz, Dov Zakheim, William Kristol, et.al.
... Advanced forms of biological warfare that can "target" specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool. ...
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title: A New Pearl Harbor
authors: John Pilger