Comments on: 9/11: Why Did Al Qaeda Attack the United States?

By: Allan Innes

Allan Innes — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:54:10 +0000

How terrifying it is that the American public was never given any real insight into the reasoning and rationale behind Al Qaeda’s attacks on September 11, 2001. Shouldn’t this absence of clarity from the U.S. government reveal to us that something is unjust in our actions? Furthermore, how troubling is it that intelligent, free-thinking people are content to assume that there is nothing more to Al Qaeda than that of them being “terrorists”? We define peoples and cultures different from our own as “others” and as less than human. Many of these situations require looking through different lenses in order to comprehend how people outside of the United States view us. The other notion which fails to sink in is that much of the United States’ economic policies (which allows us our luxurious lifestyle) are so exploitative that they have become the equivalent of economic warfare. Whether someone is shot in the face, or locked in a room with no food, the end result is the same: death. It is easy for those, untouched by these economic policies, to not see them as warfare. A current example is the situation involving Somali “pirates”. Anyone with basic literacy skills could, given the care to do so, look at the history of Western exploitation in that region and come to an understanding of who the real pirates are.

By: Kaosu

Kaosu — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:31:31 +0000

I just thought you should know that is one of the most sane discussions of 9/11 and the motivations behind the attack that I've found. Your discussion of the tactic of suicide bombing was particularly astute --- have you by any chance read "Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism"? It makes many of the same points you do, notably that suicide as a tactic is usually only employed when one side in a conflict is disproportionately smaller or weaker than the other (which frequently leads to desperate tactics).

By: 47whitebuffalo

47whitebuffalo — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:42:52 +0000

ps. Perkins Confessions of an Economic Hitman—check him out.

By: 47whitebuffalo

47whitebuffalo — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:40:30 +0000

For oil, of course.
For the military industrial complex.
For the hell of it.
Because they ‘could’.
Because we needed a wake up call that ‘we’ are NOT alone on this planet.
Pick your own adventure-conspiracy theory and stick to it like a fly to fly paper.
Maybe, just maybe to give ‘us’ a taste of our own ‘medicine’..huh–go figure—think Chevron in Ecaudor….or those planes carrying elected South American leaders blowing up in the seventies or
maybe they just wanted us to give up all our freedoms …yeah..that works best….Orwell anyone?

By: LORD REV DYJUAN D BARNES YAHWEH

LORD REV DYJUAN D BARNES YAHWEH — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:21:53 +0000

we must get rid of the illuminati and the international bankers now to save the usa and the world money system