Thread: Pat Buchanan: 9/11 Led to Wars, March of Folly

Buchanan: 9/11 Wars, March of Folly

Friday, 09 Sep 2011 10:33 PM
By Patrick Buchanan

NOT SINCE PEARL HARBOR, 60 years before, had we been as united as in that September after Islamic terrorists brought down the twin towers. The nation stood behind the president in his resolve to exact retribution on the men who had done this, and those who abetted the mass murder of 3,000 innocents. And George W. Bush rose to the occasion.

Within three months, a northern alliance of anti-Taliban Afghans, assembled by U.S. special forces and supported by U.S. air power, had driven into Kabul and deposed Mullah Omar. Osama bin Laden, architect of the massacre, was holed up in Tora Bora, his capture or killing seemingly imminent.

Fast forward 10 years. Bin Laden is finally dead. Seal Team Six saw to it. His body lies on the floor of the Arabian Sea. Yet, he will be among the most influential men of this century.

For, as Gavrilo Princip fired the shot that killed the Austrian Arch-duke in Sarajevo, setting in motion the events that led to the greatest war in history, bin Laden devised the blow that may have brought an end to America’s reign as the last superpower.

Princip was not responsible for the Great War. It was rather the miscalculations of the statesmen of Europe after June 28, 1914. And Osama, though he wounded and provoked America as she had not been since Dec. 7, 1941, did not bring down the American imperium. We did that to ourselves.

Ten years have elapsed since 9/11. Looking back, what did the wars launched in response to that atrocity cost? And what did they accomplish?
Taking Afghanistan and Iraq together, the longest wars in U.S. history, the costs have been immense: 6,000 dead, 40,000 wounded. Over $1 trillion sunk. Hundreds of thousands of Afghan and Iraqi dead. Half a million widows and orphans.

Four million Iraqis were uprooted; 2 million have fled into exile, half of them Christians. We unleashed the fury of Islam on the Christians of Iraq where the murders and martyrdoms do not cease. In a Muslim world we set afire, Christians everywhere face persecution as perceived allies of the “crusaders and Zionists.â€

9/11/01
http://geocities.ws/hclsmith/my-tl/sep11.html

http://911timeline.net/

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/archive ... ledge.html

Since our middle class is dying much due to loss of manufacturing we can no longer support nation building and acting as the world's police force, simply won't work, what we must do is build our military to a point no one dare attacks,tighten our borders/immigration controls and many of our outside threats will disappear, sadly too much money is made for some now in positions of power to change our current policies.

LIBYA: 7 Wars Lined up under the NEOCons

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7NsXFnzJGw

General Wesley Clark tells of how Middle East destabilization was planned as far back as 1991


Video:Libya the Untold Truth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNeZ75Sd ... re=related