Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: [Dicono di noi] The 9/11 autopsy

Sarebbe opportuno, ogni tanto, tenere conto di cosa pensano quelli sui 
quali esercitiamo le nostre capacità di analisi.
 
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The 9/11 autopsy
 
Gamal Nkrumah , Sunday 11 Sep 2011
 
Nobody, save perhaps Europe, shrugs off international humiliation as 
disingenuously as the United States of America. Time and again since the 
loss of face in the Vietnam War and the terrible human cost to 
Vietnamese and Americans alike, Washington has embarked on military 
escapades throughout the world in the most ruthless manner under the 
pretext of defending freedom, democracy and human rights. This would be 
remarkable enough, but Washington does all this without any qualms about 
its moral right to do so.
 
The world sees Washington for what it is: a sickening superpower with a 
morbid imperial mentality. Its politicians and policy-makers are 
laser-brained careerists who have since 9/11 manipulated the unfortunate 
event to further their careers. The conventional wisdom in Washington 
holds that politicians must be packaged as thick-skinned, sharp-elbowed 
robots of the Dick Cheney variety dedicated to self-aggrandisement and 
self-advancement. The so-called "War against Terror" was nothing but a 
hoax designed to win the sympathy of gullible governments around the world.
 
On this tenth anniversary of the 9/11 and the destruction of the Wall 
Street Twin Trade Towers and the unprecedented attack on the Pentagon, 
it is time to reflect and ponder the implications of Washington's 
aggressive policies overseas.
 
Ten years ago, I wrote a commentary entitled Giant's Feet of Clay and 
received an astounding number of hate-mail from patriotic Americans. I 
also was applauded by conscientious citizens of the US who were not 
fooled by the lies spewed by the then administration of George W Bush. 
Policymakers and politicians in Washington were not in the least 
interested in principled answers to the poignant questions posed by 9/11 
concerning the national security of the US.
 
The powers that be in Washington were more interested in fishing out, 
hounding and bringing to book those they regarded as having a 
treacherous and disloyal disposition.
 
Through all this, moreover, Washington was shameless in its pretensions 
that it was warring with Taliban's Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein's Iraq 
for justice and retribution. But then the very foundations of the US 
have been based on the appropriation of the lands of North America's 
indigenous population. The European settler colonial mentality that 
created apartheid South Africa and is now expanding the Zionist entity, 
Israel, on dubious Biblical grounds, is the same ideology upon which the 
US was founded. The land grab was cynically used to justify genocide.
 
US policymakers do not stand a prayer. The irony is that the name given 
to the military operation to execute Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was 
none other than Operation Geronimo. For those familiar with the history 
of the US Geronimo was the Native American Apache chieftain who led his 
people in a brave albeit desperate resistance bid to rid his land of the 
invaders. He was defending his ancestral lands from European settler 
colonialism.
 
Washington's politicians' knack of sweeping historical myths and blatant 
lies into some corner cabinet of the recesses of their evil, heartless 
minds led them cynically to call their weapons of war and warplanes 
after the Native American peoples they vanquished. The Blackhawk and the 
Apache have become buzzwords for US imperialism and synonyms of American 
military might. Imagine the public outcry had Hitler's Luftwaffe named 
its fighter jets "Jew" and "Gypsy". Such hypocrisy begs serious 
introspection and retrospection.
 
Ralph Nader, consumer advocate and author of Only the Super-Rich Can 
Save Us reminds us that the first 9/11 was in 1973 when the US toppled 
the democratically elected government of Chile's Salvador Allende in a 
bloody military coup d’état that put the right-wing dictator Augusto 
Pinochet in Allende's place.
 
Such is the twisted logic of the world's leading advocate of democracy, 
freedom and human rights. Such is the hypocrisy of the powers that be in 
Washington. Such is the legacy of 9/11 that first used political Islam 
as an instrument to destroy the Left and progressive forces in the Arab 
and Islamic worlds and then used militant Islam as a bogeyman, and 
terrorists as an excuse to re-colonise the oil-rich lands of the Middle 
East and North Africa such as Iraq and Libya.
 
Saddam Hussein's Iraq had no Weapons of Mass Destruction as the hawks in 
Washington claimed in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. The US might have 
dumped the body of Bin Laden in the Arabian Sea, but the Taliban still 
commands considerable respect among a broad spectrum of the frustrated 
unemployed youth and manages to be as popular as ever in Afghanistan.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/4/0/20882/Opinion//The--autopsy.aspx
 
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 quali esercitiamo le nostre capacità di analisi.
questo tale, in particolare, pensa che Israele non sia uno Stato ma
una "Zionist entity". Wow, che pensiero originale.