This is why you need to be careful about bullying some nerd in school because the above is what you end up with. Tho I guess Noah Smith should just "get over" getting stuffed in a locker
This is why you need to be careful about bullying some nerd in school because the above is what you end up with. Tho I guess Noah Smith should just "get over" getting stuffed in a locker
Chinese historians pointing out the horrible effects of imperialism and colonialism on their country and its people - stewing
Americans murdering millions and destroying several countries because literally less than 3000 people got killed in a terrorist attack - not stewing
A terrorist attack on a very valid target, one of the headquarters of global capital and western hegemony. The 9/11 hijackers had very reasonable, valid, targets, which were basically 2 of the buildings no one should feel bad about killing people inside of: The World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
It’s just a shame the Pentagon attack wasn’t more successful.
They were highly symbolic. But you'd have killed more high profile politicians and executives if you'd hit Yankee Stadium during a big game or perhaps Yale University during alumni night. Very few people of note actually died in the WTC because the offices were kinda shit and all the big money guys had their own buildings elsewhere.
The Pentagon and the WH were easier to argue. But they were also much harder targets to penetrate, as evidenced by the failure of the Pentagon plane to do any serious damage and the WH plane to reach its target.
As a military exercise, 9/11 really was a modern day Pearl Harbor in so far as it provided ample causa belli without doing anything to meaningfully disrupt the MIC or the war profiteers behind it.