{"id":1088,"date":"2007-06-21T13:14:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T18:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/alec\/06\/21\/how-dare-you-say-anything-honest-about-the-origins-of-911\/"},"modified":"2012-12-26T20:56:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T01:56:17","slug":"how-dare-you-say-anything-honest-about-the-origins-of-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/alec\/06\/21\/how-dare-you-say-anything-honest-about-the-origins-of-911\/","title":{"rendered":"How dare you say anything honest about the origins of 9\/11!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This isn\u2019t in my usual style to write a serious rant where my \u2018truthiness\u2019 isn\u2019t slathered with a thick layer of disdain and sarcasm. But here goes:<\/p>\n

I am really fed up with the idea that if you discuss the origins of 9\/11, you are somehow a coward, not a patriot, not an American, a terrorist sympathizer, or somewhere else between bottom feeding scum and social pariah who thinks too much for one\u2019s own good. I\u2019ll be honest, I\u2019ve never been the biggest fan of the Ron Paul Phenomena and I didn\u2019t watch the majority of the Republican debate. In fact, I only was able to watch the part of the debate with the most significance \u2014 where Ron Paul and Rudy Giuliani exchange words over the origins of (Watch the exchange<\/a> and read a more extensive briefing of the exchange at the Nation<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Now, the basis of the argument that occurred is the following: Ron Paul had the fucking audacity<\/em> to say that September 11th and the rising Islamic\/Jihadist movement may have some origins in America\u2019s less than stellar record in the Middle East. Never mind that the 9\/11 Commission reported on the blowback from American involvement in the Middle East as a contributing factor and that anyone with a functioning frontal lobe could connect the dots between September 11th, and say, a couple century\u2019s worth of outside interference by the West. After Paul stated the case between these connections, Giuliani quickly stepped in and said in so many words, you are one anti-American fuck and twisted Ron Paul\u2019s words around to make it seem like he insinuated we deserved the attack. And with that, a crowd of overweight arm-chair bullies started hooting and hollering at the South Carolina Republican Debate.<\/p>\n

All I could think about when I watched this was these are the people were interested enough in politics to attend a debate and this is their appropriate level of discourse<\/em>. All that has to be done or said is September 11th and suddenly everyone feels very coy and shy about their beliefs. The sacred cow is also the most profitable one: I never thought Rudy \u201cSeptember 1tth\u201d Giuliani could win the nomination simply by talking about September 11th until my mind explodes, but it\u2019s seemingly working. Despite being a social liberal, Rudy is pretty much coasting through the polls as the Republican front runner because his speeches are jingo games of \u2018terrorism\u2019, \u20189\/11?, \u2018jihadists\u2019, and \u2018Islamo-Fascists\u2019. And sadly enough, people eat this shit up. Well, not quite people, but Republicans, but my sense is this would play out in a similar method in the general election as well.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I\u2019ve digressed. My point being is that September 11th was not an event in which upon reflection should cause us to curl into a ball and cry for Rudy Giuliani or George Bush to save us. I\u2019m not saying that America deserved to be attacked by a bunch of crazed religious zealots or that we brought this upon ourselves. I am saying that September 11th should have woken us up to the fact that America\u2019s foreign policy has been seriously misguided since the start of the Cold War. We\u2019d do a tremendous favor to ourselves if we realized the cost of an invasive, military-dependent foreign policy bent on serving our short term interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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