War: November 2007 Archives
Just a mini-essay here, but this sprang from an intimate conversation with my brother. For the full text, pretend you're with the NSA and phone up an inexperienced information services rep at AOL. The gist, anyway, is that 9/11 has gotten to a fever-pitch of discussion in this country. You're batshit insane if you think there were charges in the twin towers and the government had a hand in perpetrating the attack.
However, well, fuck; just read the piece:
What's wrong with the official account of 9/11? Key components of the way the day unfolded were covered up and whitewashed to conceal the utter, abject failure of our government to defend us and defend itself when attacked directly. You find all kinds of inconsistencies, embarrassments, and things not adding up in the official account, because we were caught with our pants down, in terms of preparedness. Our guys did everything they could to hammer into a quick and dirty narrative the freakish ease with which the enraged Saudis brought our nation to its knees with a little out-of-the-box thinking.
To make public all of those key pieces would only be to expose that which is painfully true, lately, in times of crisis, when it's all gazed at under the unflinching microscope of the internet's power: Our government is run by a bunch of well-groomed children, who don't know what to do in any crisis more than what they find in their guts, or in the writings of their ponderous predecessors.
If you think a bunch of careerist babies in positions of great power are going to, when faced with the decision to either lay bare their rank ineptitude, or to claim "privilege" and "national security" in order to keep secret their shameful, systemic uselessness, admit to the fact that they didn't belong where they belong and don't belong anywhere else in future administration of any sort, well... you're stupid.
Would you cop to being inept? Would you cop to just how exposed your backside is on a given day, if a real enemy wants to give it a go? Would you really admit anything? Or would you shut it all up and do your best to make sure no one knows just how fragile and frail is your thin little grip on things like "interior intelligence," "air superiority," and "total aerial lockdown?" Everyone all throughout your national defense network, both before and after the crime, performed about as well as an 85 year old janitor, charged with security, who happened to be whacking it in the bathroom while his erstwhile bank got robbed blind by a handful of keystone crooks armed with nothing but boxcutters and terroristic threats. Are you going to admit something like that when it's not really even required? I'd take the "make everything secret" route, personally.
For the security of the country, if nothing else.
However, well, fuck; just read the piece:
What's wrong with the official account of 9/11? Key components of the way the day unfolded were covered up and whitewashed to conceal the utter, abject failure of our government to defend us and defend itself when attacked directly. You find all kinds of inconsistencies, embarrassments, and things not adding up in the official account, because we were caught with our pants down, in terms of preparedness. Our guys did everything they could to hammer into a quick and dirty narrative the freakish ease with which the enraged Saudis brought our nation to its knees with a little out-of-the-box thinking.
To make public all of those key pieces would only be to expose that which is painfully true, lately, in times of crisis, when it's all gazed at under the unflinching microscope of the internet's power: Our government is run by a bunch of well-groomed children, who don't know what to do in any crisis more than what they find in their guts, or in the writings of their ponderous predecessors.
If you think a bunch of careerist babies in positions of great power are going to, when faced with the decision to either lay bare their rank ineptitude, or to claim "privilege" and "national security" in order to keep secret their shameful, systemic uselessness, admit to the fact that they didn't belong where they belong and don't belong anywhere else in future administration of any sort, well... you're stupid.
Would you cop to being inept? Would you cop to just how exposed your backside is on a given day, if a real enemy wants to give it a go? Would you really admit anything? Or would you shut it all up and do your best to make sure no one knows just how fragile and frail is your thin little grip on things like "interior intelligence," "air superiority," and "total aerial lockdown?" Everyone all throughout your national defense network, both before and after the crime, performed about as well as an 85 year old janitor, charged with security, who happened to be whacking it in the bathroom while his erstwhile bank got robbed blind by a handful of keystone crooks armed with nothing but boxcutters and terroristic threats. Are you going to admit something like that when it's not really even required? I'd take the "make everything secret" route, personally.
For the security of the country, if nothing else.
I had forgotten frmr President William Jefferson Clinton had a speaking engagement near my home this morning. Imagine my surprise, then, when I saw one of these babies roll by me on W. Lake Sammamwich Drive as I made my commute:
Holy piss, man. Honestly, one man needs this kind of security? Against... terrorists? Jihadis? Seriously? The Jihadis require us to send in fucking SWAT vehicles as a precaution? Did Usama bin Ladin recruit RoboCop or something? I just have to question this threat we supposedly face. I think it's becoming patently ridiculous, and I'm beginning to think that maybe the Powers to Be know something I don't know. That maybe the threat to these politician scumbags isn't terrahwrists. Something to chew on. Carry on.
Holy piss, man. Honestly, one man needs this kind of security? Against... terrorists? Jihadis? Seriously? The Jihadis require us to send in fucking SWAT vehicles as a precaution? Did Usama bin Ladin recruit RoboCop or something? I just have to question this threat we supposedly face. I think it's becoming patently ridiculous, and I'm beginning to think that maybe the Powers to Be know something I don't know. That maybe the threat to these politician scumbags isn't terrahwrists. Something to chew on. Carry on.
