9/11 explains the impotence of the antiwar movement
Even in the official account, the story is one of massive
failures: the failures of US intelligence services, the failures of airport
security, the failures to intercept the hijacked airliners, the failures to
preserve evidence. If a common front had taken the Bush administration to task
both for failing to prevent the 9/11 attacks and for an explanation of 9/11 so
inadequate that its plausibility depends on outside experts, Bush could not
have so easily shifted the blame to Afghanistan and Iraq. Most 9/11 doubters do
not insist on the US government’s complicity in the deed. Failure to protect,
or incompetence, is a sufficient charge to deter an administration from war by
turning it against itself with demands for accountability.
But no one was held accountable for 9/11 except Muslim
countries. This is the reason the antiwar movement is impotent.
Paul
Craig Roberts [email him]was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the
Reagan Administration. He is the author of Supply-Side
Revolution : An Insider’s Account of Policymaking in Washington Alienation
and the Soviet Economy and Meltdown:
Inside the Soviet Economyand is the
co-author with Lawrence M. Stratton ofThe
Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the
Constitution in the Name of Justice here for Peter
Brimelow’s Forbes Magazine interview with Roberts about the recent epidemic of
prosecutorial misconduct.
