With 9/11 behind us the question must be asked, is the quoted article the 'feature or the bug'?

This question is directed at the Brain Trust behind the scenes. Those key few at the table who really had GWB ear and an ability to influence his decisions. Not what average citizens may have been convinced of, after the fact.

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I see it as the feature.

The Military and Police/Prisons complexes are always looking for the issues that grow their membership, budgets, profits and power.

9/11 provided the perfect "War" to maneuver America in to replace the bemoaned lost Cold War profits, power and growth the Cold War had provided and was taken away from them.

A War on Terror would provide all the best features to the Military Complex that the War on Drugs did for the Policing and Prisons Complex.

While pretending these "Wars" can be won, it is well known by those pushing them that the opposite will happen. They will get more terrorists demanding ever growing budgets and responses. Just as the Policing/Prisons complex spend the most money lobbying for tougher laws on things like Marijuana, etc, that they know will lead to more "criminals" and the need for expanding budgets to fight them.

- The "Bug" option in this poll speaks to a a belief that it was 'just', in its INTENT, even if the execution failed. The War against Terrorism was believed to be winnable.


- The "Feature" option speaks to this being a Military complex 'work'. Planned and very deliberate and orchestrated to a specific ends of creating a forever War.

To the Mod's I would be fine with this being merged within the 9/11 thread once people have voted on the poll. I actually started to post it there but realized the Poll is the most interesting to me to see how others look at stuff like this, the War on Drugs, etc.

Do they see them as conceived in a 'just' way in the belief that they are winnable and these failures are just 'honest miscalculations and mistakes'? Or do they think those pushing are getting exactly what they wanted and are just waiting for the right issue they can use to move this agenda with the US citizenry, to achieve their ulterior goals?

Nothing to add other then lol that this forum still uses software that doesn't let you insert a poll into an existing thread.

feature! Michael Moore also thinks this. He got witchhunted for 20 years and now they all agree. Everyone said "how dare you?" to his "fahrenheit 9/11"

Listen to this. He also says most people born after 911 dont have a clue at all.

This is our vietnam, our injustified war, Im guessing every generation has one of those.

Ya I think this is a very uncomfortable and perhaps still somewhat taboo topic for many Americans who would rather not comment and attach any negative intentions, in many cases for actions taken by the country they supported.

Perhaps still more a topic to be avoided than engaged.