I was one who happened to agree with Rev Wright that we Americans were, to some extent, complicit in 9/11. Others of course disagree. What no one, after reading this, will be able to ignore is that we have been complicit in aiding bin Laden since 9/11.
Koppel's Bullseye!
I have always respected Ted Koppel’s mind and analysis. And in Sunday’s Washington Post he has succinctly focused a laser on everything we have been saying for a long time here at Dkos. This editorial needs to go viral. Send it to everyone you know!
I submit to you that this is all the narrative we need concerning Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
Be sure to read the whole column. He backs up these statements below with, would you believe............ facts!
If future history books need an entry on 9/11, it’s aftermath, and how America sabotaged itself, this is it. He has successfully cleared away the rubble and cut through the BS.
I can think of no better description to help us and posterity understand.
......much of what he (Bin Laden) has achieved we have done, and continue to do, to ourselves. Bin Laden does not deserve that we, even inadvertently, fulfill so many of his unimagined dreams.
It did not have to be this way
......in these and many other developments, bin Laden needed our unwitting collaboration, and we have provided it.
And here he gives clarity to bin Laden’s plan from the get go.
Even Glenn Beck & co., will find it difficult to argue against this.
Through the initial spending of a few hundred thousand dollars, training and then sacrificing 19 of his foot soldiers, bin Laden has watched his relatively tiny and all but anonymous organization of a few hundred zealots turn into the most recognized international franchise since McDonald's. Could any enemy of the United States have achieved more with less?
Could bin Laden, in his wildest imaginings, have hoped to provoke greater chaos? It is past time to reflect on what our enemy sought, and still seeks, to accomplish -- and how we have accommodated him.
Now stick this in your craw Cheney, Bush, Limbaugh, Palin, Beck, ad nauseam. I hope you choke! Sorry, I got a little reactive. GOTV