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Kadark said:
It's amusing how two intelligent posters, Tiassa and hypewaders, become so narrow-minded and defensive when discussing the topic of 9/11. Tiassa is practically too scared to consider alternative theories, mainly because their authentication would flip-turn his entire understanding of the world, and how it works. On the other hand, we have hypewaders, who calmly admits that the CIA has conducted and assisted terrorist attacks offshore. However, when the idea of 9/11 being assisted by the CIA rears its head, hypewaders is quick to denounce it as a preposterous proposal. The CIA didn't care too much about its countrymen when it pushed drugs into Black American communities, did it?
Fomenting a crack epidemic was a bad enough idea. There is, even by the concept of honor among thieves, a clear difference between doing something as stupid as pushing crack into poor neighborhoods and consciously and deliberately aiding and abetting a murderous assault by foreign agents against a civilian center.
It would, indeed, be a devastating blow against my understanding of the world to find that such a grotesque accusation was true.
The proposition that our leaders were so inept as to simply blow it—and in this, we are not, as a nation, without culpability, but it is a different brand of culpability—is, while sickening, entirely imaginable.
That our federal government should, as the theory has it, with knowledge of what was going to happen either refuse to prevent it or, perhaps, in some way aid and abet the crime, would suggest a moral and ethical nadir of such sinister proportions that I cannot, at this time, reasonably calculate the implications thereof.
If the case is ever proven to a certain degree—for, truly, few things are so clearly writ in history, except by accident of myopia—I'll deal with it then. In the meantime, given the severity of the accusation and what its truth would imply, I do not think it unreasonable to wait for better evidence than half-cocked theories by disaffected neighbors seeking to remind how much smarter they are than anyone else in the world.
Maybe this book is the one. I'm guessing not, though. Nor will I hold my breath for that day of damnation when we might justly indict officials for aiding and abetting Al Qaeda's assault against the United States of America.