>>This is political science fiction, but at least
shows
that you have some imagination.
See, Omar, if it were all science fiction, I'd
still be reading Rumi and 9/11 wouldn't have
happened. My friends would still be alive. (Look
at the photo on the blog of NYC at Y2K.) The
unimaginable happened. That hypothesis ceased to
be one. It became a painful event.
Put down your ideological shield for a moment and
tell me what you think the US should have done
after 9/11. Just sit back and take it? Or try to
fix some root problems? Go into an introspective
period of mourning and self-recrimination, or try
to excise the rotten core of the apple?
As I've repeatedly maintained, Hitchens isn't
Bush's water boy. He's the one suggesting a
rapprochement with Iran, rather than using the
crisis as an excuse to test our new laser weapons
or our new bunker-busting bombs. But the world
isn't run by ideas or ideals; it's run by
competing interests, all of whom are hungry for
oil, influence, power, an edge on the future, or
the chance to dominate.
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