Sorry Ted, your cohorts bear a lot of blame for blaring 'terrorism' each night.
America's Chronic Overreaction to Terrorism
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#12I hope the US is actually doing something smart/tricky. The CIA (or whoever) say this is because of some chatter. Can't they decode the chatter? Maybe they are pretending they can't.
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#13This is a conversation that we need to continually have as a nation and I am glad to see it being covered in more "mainstream" press. What are we giving up to gain our freedom and is it worth it in the long run? The intelligence apparatus our nation has constructed only has value as long as we have fear, they are thereby induced to continually keep us in a state of fear whether real or fabricated. My biggest fear is…
> many of these recent "terrorist incidents", not 9/11, were in fact created by our own agencies
I don't think they consciously did it. But I do think our policies and heavy-handedness have created more terrorists than we've defeated.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
The downvotes only proves your right.
Comment got down votes, not because the commenter was right or wrong, but for the rhetoric commentary that basically does not contribute anything constructive to the discussion. It's sort of an I told you so rhetoric.
I'll bet at least some people downvoted him because they believe 9/11 truthers most certainly are wrong.
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#15Wait, is this a trap article? This is coming from WSJ?
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#16Seems deliberately deceitful.
After listing historical terrorist events and responses, Mr. Koppel tries to lump in our invasion of Iraq as an over-sized reaction to terrorism from 9/11 which happened eighteen months earlier.
The invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, it was about oil, as we all know now, after the propaganda has died down and people have generally gone back to sleep.
The loss of privacy and rights since then, and currently, is our govt misbehaving, and also has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.
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#17Everyone who perpetuates the lies of the official narrative of 911 is co-builder of the police state. When you help build the prison, don't be surprised when you find yourself in it.
By coincidence, Mr. Deity posted this just today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xGNA7U54Qw
Now, about those chemtrails ...
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#18This is a conversation that we need to continually have as a nation and I am glad to see it being covered in more "mainstream" press. What are we giving up to gain our freedom and is it worth it in the long run? The intelligence apparatus our nation has constructed only has value as long as we have fear, they are thereby induced to continually keep us in a state of fear whether real or fabricated. My biggest fear is…
Again, war is a huge business. (And this of course includes the so-called "war" on terrorism.) I believe that's the main reason (if not the only reason) why it is being kept alive (today by using the cheap manipulation technique of fear).
Nothing makes the economy "boom" more than focusing productivity on single-use weapons and other commodities of war. The industrial production of WWII is what kicked off the boom that followed. If some is good, then more must be better - perpetual war must be the best stimulus we could give our economy!
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#19Seems deliberately deceitful. After listing historical terrorist events and responses, Mr. Koppel tries to lump in our invasion of Iraq as an over-sized reaction to terrorism from 9/11 which happened eighteen months earlier. The invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, it was about oil, as we all know now, after the propaganda has died down and people have generally gone back to sleep. The loss of privacy and ri…
There is a difference between "motive" and "justification".
The government's motive is oil, money, growth in scope, etc.
The government's justification is terrorism. So this conversation is absolutely related to terrorism.
Awareness of that difference is important. Articles like this are key to promoting awareness.
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#20You fight terrorism by refusing to be terrorized. America (or at least, its successive governments) failed from the start.
So how do I fight pithy one-liners that have no substance?