[net-gold] How 9/11 Provoked the U.S. to Hasten its Own Decline
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- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:17:24 -0400 (EDT)
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How 9/11 Provoked the U.S. to Hasten its Own Decline
Posted by Tony Karon
Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 2:50 pm
Time / CNN
http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/09/08/how-911-
provoked-the-u-s-to-hasten-its-own-decline/?iid=pf-main-mostpop2
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/42d5lka
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During his first year in office, President George W. Bush was confronted
by the key strategic challenge facing the United States in the new
century, in an incident that began with the diversion of a U.S. aircraft
-- by Chinese fighter planes, which forced a U.S. Navy spy plane to land
on the island of Hainan after a collision that downed a Chinese jets,
killing its pilot. What followed was a tense 11-day standoff between
Washington and Beijing, serving an early warning that China's emergence as
an economic superpower would inevitably alter the geopolitical balance of
power in Asia, and globally.
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But then came 9/11 -- a mass-casualty terrorist provocation on an
unprecedented scale -- and the Bush Administration convinced itself, and
much of America, that the world had changed. The new president had found
his "calling" in a campaign to "rid the world of evil doers", declaring a
"war on terrorism" that would become the leitmotif and singular obsession
of U.S. foreign policy for the remainder of his presidency -- a presidency
that despite massive, kinetic displays of military force, left the U.S.
strategically weaker at its close than when Bush entered the Oval Office.
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"We'd always treated terrorist attacks before primarily as a law
enforcement problem... going after and finding the guilty party, bring
them to trial and put them in the slammer," Vice President Dick Cheney
told TIME in an interview published in this week's edition. "After 9/11,
you couldn't look on those as just law enforcement problems anymore. It
was clearly an act of war. And that's a significant shift. You're going to
use all of the means available..."
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But while the scale and brutality of the attacks might have been akin to
an act of war, 9/11 was the work of a tiny network of transnational
extremists, founded on the remnants of the Arab volunteers who'd fought in
the U.S.-backed Afghan jihad against the Soviet Union.
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Like any other terrorist attack, it was a particularly horrifying act of
"armed propaganda", staged to grab global media attention in order to:
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* hugely exaggerate the significance of al-Qaeda and its leader, painting
them as far more powerful than their real numbers suggest;
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* highlight their demands;
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* instill fear in Western civilian populations to create pressure for a
retreat from Muslim countries; and
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* rally support among the population whose grievances they championed and
on whose behalf they claimed to act.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Temple University
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