Today's Warm and Fuzzy Thought

Recently a number of academics have joined in the growing conspiracy movement questioning the legitimacy of the 9-11 attacks and their repercussions. I am sure following his take on the JFK assassination, many are looking to Oliver Stone's take on the events in question and come up with some sort of equally disturbing theories. Naturally, that isn't the case. One conservative law maker apparently gushed over the film using terms like, "flag waving, gun toting, god fearing Americans read here" blah blah blah blah. This is pretty much what I expected from the trailer... this is a film that follows in the line of Munich, or at least that is my impression. I probably won't see the film at least not right away, but who knows I might be bored one day and out of material for my blog and head down to the local googleplex and see it.

Now, back to the original idea of the conspiracy theories. I have seen a few of the conspiracy films and honestly after about fifteen minutes of their hard to get through production style, I think that it would be difficult for any sane person to sit through two hours of them and not be driven to madness. They repeat the same point over and over again and usually involve some man in a black mask telling us the facts. If they really want to put forth their theories (some of which may be valid) then they should make a straight forward documentary that raises the questions.

I have written before on how I believe that while the US Government didn't necessarily orchestrate the events, bring down the towers with explosives, man the planes etc., but that they did turn a blind eye to the information they were receiving hoping that they could use a catastrophic "pearl harbor" like event to sell their war in Iraq and on terror which they have wanted to wage for a very long time. One need to look no further than the Project for the New American Century for evidence of that. I believe that there are many questions still left unanswered and that we haven't done as much as we could to prepare our Nation for future attacks because we have been caught up in the quagmire that is the Iraq war which was suspiciously substituted for the real "war on terror".

The problem is that we will never know the answer because to know that our government turned a blind eye to the death of thousands of Americans and ignored the warnings that started us down this path, would totally destroy any confidence they have in our bodies of government. No politician would be safe regardless of party affiliation, which is something that they don't want. So, the full truth behind September 11th, like the JFK assassination, will be forever debated in the back halls of conspiracy theorists and never be fully resolved.