Gautam, et al, Sometimes, my wife says of herself, "I don't know how you can stand to be around me: _I_ can barely take it." That's a little how I feel about myself and my recent interest in all the 9/11 conspiracies: I can hardly stand to be around myself when I get caught up in it.
After watching the "Pyroclastic" video that WTG pointed to, I realized that I'd been giving way too much credence to "Just-So Stories" about what might possibly have happened. It's not that this particular video was all that bad (it was utterly unconvincing to me, but that's beside the point), it just highlighted for me how much I'd been accepting the "coulda beens" and "shouldna beens" that are the stock in trade of conspiracy theories. I'm writing to apologize for being such a pompous ass. Also to state that my current position on the whole thing is that whoever it was who plotted to bring down the WTC buildings succeeded in a manner so spectacular that it must have surprised even them. 9/11 was a ghastly crime committed by crazed fanatics, some or all of whom were Muslim extremists. The fact that I observe that the crime was siezed upon by other fanatics as license to commit other ghastly crimes must not cloud my mind to believe that there is some shadowy connection between these groups of fanatics. Thanks, Dave _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
