-Caveat Lector- From http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/keller10.html }}}>Begin dd The Chickens Come Home to Roost by John Keller I’m watching the dust from the World Trade Center buildings settle and the Pentagon burn, while the White House is evacuated. The FAA has grounded all flights, as it now appears that three domestic commercial airliners were hijacked and crashed into these buildings, and possibly one other plane crashed before finding its target. What else could have happened but a well organized terrorist attack? From here the script is set. The pundits on TV have already mentioned Osama bin Laden. Retired General Wesley Clark maneuvered into his favorite position, full frontal camera, and announced that only Ossama bin Laden had the resources to co-ordinate such an attack. Newt Gingrich repeated basically the same thing. George Bush has promised that the government will hunt the terrorists down and punish them. "Terrorism against our nation will not stand." Huh? Sadly, terrorism already did stand, the World Trade Centers did not, and the terrorists most directly responsible are already dead. Back to the TV where the anchor goes on about the previous bombing of the World Trade Centers, the bombing of the USS Cole, Oklahoma City, and the bombing of our African Embassies. Tomorrow the calls for a national day of mourning will begin. Somewhere in this formula of terrorism, mourning, Tomahawk-revenge, repeat, the news-media are failing to connect the dots. Where and why did the cycle begin? Why do people hate the United States enough to come here and try to wreck the maximum amount of death and destruction possible? Why, why, why? Terrorism gets its name from the type of attack designed to generate the maximum amount of terror. The terrorists responsible for these attacks understood psychology well, and used it to maximum advantage as they planned their attack. They also had a reason for choosing the targets they did. Lets start with the targets, The World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon. The World Trade Centers, besides the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building were two of the most widely recognized buildings in New York. They stood at the edge of the financial district, right on Wall Street. They were the two largest symbols of American global corporatism in New York City. They were also crammed full of people, with approximately 50,000 civilians working in the two every day. The terrorist messages, intentional or not, are fivefold. First, civilians are not sa fe; they are fair game. Second, a highly secure building in the middle of America’s financial capit al is not safe; therefo re, no office building in any city is safe. The result: office buildings in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Washington, and other cities emptied within hours of the attacks. The UN and all government buildings in Washington were evacuated. Third, the airlines are not safe. The terrorists hijacked at least 4 planes, from four different airports, and two different airlines. Fourth, the terrorists attacked the symbol of International finance. Why? Fifth, the United States military is despised by whoever did this. The method of attack, and the timing tells us these terrorists had coldly calculated how to cause the greatest amount of grief for America. The flights were all domestic flights. The departure and arrival cities for the flights may have been only coincidental to the terrorist goal of hijacking the largest jets, but I don’t think this was the case. It’s easier to study a single airport for security weaknesses, get your people hired on the inside, and get weapons through, than it is to hijack planes from Boston, Washington, and Newark. That means security at three separate major airports was compromised. With end route cities in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newark, Washington, and Boston, people across the entire U.S. have lost loved ones as a result of these attacks. As of this writing, a group with the name "Palestine" in it is the only one to claim responsibility for attacks. Why would a group of Palestinians claim responsibility for the attack? Why would Palestinians be so happy about the attacks? Why would the terrorists attack military / government and banking targets? Could it be that Palestinian terrorists perceive the United States to favor Israel in the current Intafada. New York is renowned for its large Jewish population, and banking is considered a historically Jewish profession. I think the picture is becoming a little bit clearer. Maybe that’s why the World Trade Centers were targeted in New York City. Don’t get me wrong, they made good terrorist targets for logistical reasons alone: sheer height, the amount of media coverage in New York City, and the timing of the attack ensured that cameras would capture the murders and mahem, broadcasting live to an audience of millions. Chalmers Johnson has theory. He calls it blow-back. It’s simple really. When a big strong coun try uses its military or money to push around a smaller country, the smaller country can only fight back via terrorism. And provoke d enough, the smaller country will fight back. The Pentagon folks call it asymmetrical war, as in, the two sides are not even. Our side has nukes, aircraft carriers, fighters, tanks, Tomahawks, and is considering missle defense. The other side has a minimum of 4 suicidal hijackers pilots, 12 suicidal hijackers with any kind of gun, some friends in airport security, maintenance, catering, or baggage, an agreed upon date, time, and target list, and enough money to buy a few dozen plane tickets. When Nikolay Soltys or Joseph Ferguson goes on a murder spree in California, we shake our heads and dismiss it as the doings of a lunatic. When at least a dozen people carry out coordinated suicide terrorist attacks on specific t argets in the United States, something besides, or perhaps in addition to, insanity is at work. What could stir and feed such a profound hatred? Dismiss the "jealous of America" idea. Jealousy is the petty hatred of small-minded gossips and pickpockets. I think that seeing members of your family killed by armaments supplied by the United States, bought with money supplied by the United States, and used with the support of the United States just might do it. If the cycle went on long enough, perhaps for years, hatred could set it. So the ques tion is, who would do this? Here’s a partial list of countries the United States has recently (in the last 10 years) bombed, invaded, supported overthrow of the government, or supplied arms to one side in a war: Palestine, Iraq, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Sudan. China is an honorary member of the list, because of its embassy bombing, which was probably intentional. Well, we have the usual suspects, and we can bet that a terrorist from any of those countries will see this attack on the U.S. as retaliation for our bombing of their home soil. It’s ironic that the initial response is to look to the military for protection after the damage is done, when military involvement around the world was probably the cause. It’s ironic to hear calls to hunt down and punish those responsible, when they already paid with their lives. The evil masterminds remain, and given the success of this attack, they will have legions of new fanatics, ready to die. Even if we eliminate those at the top of the organization, more will take their place. Why? Will we learn anything in the aftermath of this attack? The lessons seem clear enough: follow an isolationist foreign policy. Stop selling weapons and supplyi ng monetary aid to foreign countries, period. Stop meddling in the internal politics of foreign countries, period. How much longer will we blindly support Israel, when it may have cost us thousands of lives instead of billions of dollars? How many more dead Americans do we need before we realize that our military is seen as an occupation force when viewed with foreign eyes, from foreign shores? Bring them home. How many more civilian lives will it take before we realize our government cannot protect us from harm, when it creates millions who hate us abroad? How much more destruction will be wrecked on American soil before we realize that this is a faint reflection of the destruction we have wrecked on Iraq and Yugoslavia? The list of countries we have antagonized is long. The names of the dead in those countries run into the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. If we do not change our ways, September 11, 2001 will be remembered as the first in a long string of the worst. I pray that it will be the turning point in the way we deal with the world. I pray that it will be the last, worst attack on the people of the United States. In his Gettysburg address, Lincoln said "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain". Let us resolve to understand why our countrymen were killed, that their deaths may not be in vain. September 12, 2001 John Keller lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Copyright © 2001 LewRockwell.com Back to LewRockwell.com Home Page End<{{{ &&&&&&& From http://www.lewrockwell.com/sobran/sobran195.html }}>Begin The Unknown Enemy by Joseph Sobran It was predictable. For years I’ve been writing that the U.S. Government has been making more enemies than Americans really need, all over the globe, and that one of these days some of them would have a nasty surprise for us. In fact it nearly happened a few years ago, when Islamic radicals tried to blow up the World Trade Center. But of course they made a botch of it and got caught. This time, though, someone pulled off what must have been an extremely cunning conspiracy, a criminal feat for the ages. They managed to execute a secret plan calling for four simultaneous hijackings of airplanes. Those who committed these coordinated deeds – in spite of all security measures – also had the determination to die in hitting their targets. This wasn’t "terrorism." This was war. It wasn’t a random attempt to scare people with an arbitrary atrocity, like the bombing of a pizza joint; it was a serious attempt to kill as many people and do as much material damage as possible at two strategic targets, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. But, as I write, hours after the attacks, we don’t know who is at war with us. We may never know. Who has reason to hate this country? Only a few hundred million people – Arabs, Muslims, Serbs, and numerous others whose countries have been hit by U.S. bombers. Imagine hating a country so much that you were willing to cross an ocean and carry out an elaborate revenge against its people, killing yourself in the process. This is something far more than the sort of ideological anti-Americanism that leads student mobs to throw stones at U.S. embassies abroad; that’s kid stuff. This is an obsessive, fanatical, soul-consuming hatred. Foreigners aren’t quite real to Americans, and most Americans are unaware of how profoundly their government antagonizes much of the human race. We are easy-going people who generally have no idea how bullying we seem to foreigners. Until now, we have had no experience of what the U.S. Government has so often inflicted on others. Now, at least, we have an inkling of what it feels like. Government spokesmen have responded with their usual cant of "cowardly attacks" by "terrorists" who "hate democracy and freedom." Rubbish. A fanatic who is ready to die is the opposite of a coward, and nobody can "hate" such abstractions as "democracy and freedom" with that kind of intensity. It’s dangerous to belittle your enemy, especially when his courage and cunning have already proved as formidable as his hatred and cruelty. The first question you should ask about your enemy is why he is your enemy in the first place. You may be deluding and flattering yourself if you assume he hates you for your virtues. But our "leaders" assure us that our enemies are unnaturally evil people who hate us only because we are so wonderful. And they manage to utter this nonsense with an air of tough-minded realism. True realism, on the other hand, doesn’t mean blaming Americans for bringing these horrifying and truly evil acts on themselves. It does mean trying to imagine alien perspectives from which our government’s conduct might appear so intolerable that some people might be driven to take atrocious revenge. "To understand all is to forgive all," says the French aphorism. Not true. But understanding all can at least teach you how to avoid making enemies, and avoiding making enemies is the best defense – better than a $300 billion "defense" budget that didn’t defend the World Trade Center. The great director Jean Renoir was once asked why there were no villains in his films. He answered simply: "Everyone has his reasons." Your bitterest enemy may have his reasons for hating your guts. You may not think they are good or sufficient reasons, but you’d better take them into account. If he has any brains, he may find a way to hurt you. The United States is now a global empire that wants to think of itself as a universal benefactor, and is nonplussed when foreigners don’t see it that way. None of the earlier empires of this world, as far as I know, shared this delusion; the Romans, the Mongols, the British, the Russians and Soviets didn’t expect to rule and to be loved at the same time. Why do we? September 12, 2001 Joe Sobran is a nationally syndicated columnist. He also writes "Washington Watch" for The Wanderer, a weekly Catholic newspaper, and edits SOBRAN'S, a monthly newsletter of his essays and columns. Get a free copy of Joe Sobran's lecture, "How Tyranny Came to America" by subscribing to SOBRAN'S. See www.sobran.com for details. 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