The American Thinker on Why We Fight
Terrific article by David J. Rusin; I particularly like this bit:
So where do we go from here? Stemming the tide of revisionist nonsense often presents a dilemma. One can confront the nonsense head-on, but in doing so grant it broader exposure than it might otherwise enjoy. Alternatively, one can ignore the nonsense to deprive it of much-needed publicity, but thereby risk that it will fester and eventually take hold.
In the case of September 11 conspiracy theories, however, the dilemma is all but moot. Not only did the genie leave its bottle long ago, but passivity is hardly sufficient in the face of such extraordinarily high stakes. When historical revisionism cuts to the very heart of a society and undermines its will to defend itself against merciless enemies, simply ignoring those distortions is tantamount to a slow suicide. Aggressively confronting the September 11 conspiracy theories is therefore imperative and long overdue.
posted by Pat @ 10:28 AM
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That quote is great, and summarizes my thinking on the need to do this. If we were in a pre-internet age, when 9/11 occured, i would say ignore them and the nonsense will go away. Now, however, we are in an age where speculation and disinformation has an instant, enormous audience, in cyberspace. When you think of the demographic of internet usage, and that a large component of users are young, rebelious, male, and computer savvy, it becomes clear just how dangerous ignoring the CTers will be.
Hence, the reason why myself, Pat, James, and others sign on every day and make sure common sense, logic, and rationality are applied to all the 9/11 truth junk that is out there.
TAM
both links are to Amazon.com sites...nice.
TAM
At least it is a step up from the usual link to the American Free Press or Alex Jones.
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was barbara olson murdered by the clintons?
Nah.
According to leftwing blowhard and psycho Tom Flocco, Barbara Olson never died at all. She was arrested some time back with millions of Euros on the German/Polish border.
Unfortunately for the Flockster, nothing came of that story. The same thing happened when Flocco (who is allegedly a teacher in Pennsylvania) said that Bush and Cheney had been indicted by a grand jury in 2005.
You know, Rusin misses an important point, one which haunts all of the conspiratorialist nutcases:
They always go too far.
For instance, saying that there are "questions" about 9/11 is not out-and-out crazy. But to say that pools of molten metal or death rays brought the WTC towers down, or that there were no aircraft involved in the terrorist attack, or missiles were fired at the Pentagon, or some such other nonsense, proves how utterly ridiculous the Troothers became. They are not thoughtful people asking questions - they became a punch line.
Rusin should realize that for all the people not psychotic who think more happened on 9/11, they listen to the loons, nuts, whackjobs and psychos and realize that you can stick with the real truth or sell out to the fruitcakes. And 99% choose to stick with the real truth.
Kevin Barrett responds (to the American Thinker article)
That's funny. His response is equivalent to "ofcourse they can keep it secret! they're still keeping the secret of how they faked the moon landing!".
What a nut.
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