[lit-ideas] Re: Is it any wonder...
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 15:04:53 -0400
Simon: In short, 9/11 has enabled the Bush
administration to advance its own agenda to a
degree that wouldn't have been possible without it.
Is it any wonder...
Eric: Hi, Simon! Isn't that the post hoc ergo
prompter hoc fallacy?
One could say the Iran Hostage Crisis put
Reagan/Bush in office, gave Bush the presidency,
that Gulf War I enabled the West to shut down
Saddam, gave the US an excuse to put Infidel boots
on sacred sand, and supplied al-Qaeda with
justification to kill civilians. And so the real
cause of 9/11 was the Iran Hostage Crisis.
But wait! There's the overthrow of the Shah of
Iran. But wait again! There's the overthrow of Dr.
Mohammad Mossadegh's regime by the CIA.
But wait yet again! There's the Soviet puppet
government (represented by Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh)
that caused the CIA to overthrow it.
And again! There's the Tehran Conference in World
War II, where Stalin tacitly acknowledged Iran as
a puppet state of the USSR.
So Stalin caused 9/11. But wait...Trotsky, Lenin,
the Tsars...Alexander Nevsky. Yeah Nevsky...who
defeated the Teutonic Knights. Nevsky = 9/11.
Conspiracies start wherever one decides to start.
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