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I can see what you mean, which is why I pointed out I didn’t have any evidence for it. I guess my main point is that just because the US government got to do lots of big expensive things (Iraq being one example) because of the 11th of Sept, it doesn’t mean they orchestrated it.
Possibly, although it didn’t take a genius to realise that funding lots of extreme Muslims in Afghanistan was at some point going to come back to bite us.
This is an important point, and one of the reasons that Noam Chomsky gives for finding even the idea of a conspiracy absurd and impossible. It would require a level of coordination, ideological conviction, secrecy and singular bloody mindedness on an impossible scale.
As much as there are serious questions around the handling, investigation of, and actions after 9/11 the idea of a singular conspiracy is, I believe, fundamentally beyond any human system at present.
Definitely, you only have to read the PNAC letter released the day after Sept 11th to suspect that important people were waiting for something similar to happen to excuse the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.
But something was bound to happen - even if 9/11 was unimaginable, a car bombing, an attack on a US embassy or a repeat of USS Cole was almost a certainty.
It wasn't unknown that Islamic radicals were anti-US and would use terrorism, what was unknown was that they were planning to mass hijack planes and fly them into building.
Exactly, there was quite a lot of lead in time and a large attack was expected, just not in the form it came.
Like I've said the only 'conspiracy' I see is the exploitation of the events for military, political and economic gain. But given that was done so blatently and so openly it can hardly be described as a conspiracy.
I wouldn't say its a conspiracy either, not least because there was obviously no choice for Afghanistan given the magnitude of the attacks. However, I would disagree with your initial comments that the CIA et al were set up to alolow the attacks