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Why the Americans had 9/11?
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June 24, 2011
The collapse of the Soviet Union denied the American government the ability to exploit the fear of Marxism to its own benefit. It was as if the American government had lost its reason for being. Former Soviet foreign spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov warned the United States: “We have done the most terrible thing to you that we could possibly have done. We have deprived you of an enemy.” The fall left the US government without a justification for its existence. The state no longer enjoyed an overbearing threat with which to distract the masses while it grew in size. A new enemy was the need of the hour otherwise the populace would get used to not being afraid. The new boogeyman was given the name of Osama bin Laden and his organization was christened Al-Qaeda. The stage was created for the new monster to instill fear in the people—fear of global terrorism. Hence, we have 9/11!
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself,” is an oft quoted Franklin Roosevelt’s, the 32nd President of the United States, quotation. Nothing can be further from the truth; Americans in general and their foreign policy in particular is deeply rooted in fear. Their fear has traversed the national borders and seeped into international territories. Today the greatest threat to our freedom is not terrorism, but what governments are doing to counter this perceived terrorist threat.

Fear perpetuates cycles of violence without end and a disregard for long term consequences. It can even be addicting, with the need for ever greater amounts to sustain a kind of fear equilibrium. Thus fear became the foundation of American foreign policy. Americans are directly and constantly encouraged to be afraid. They are made to be afraid of attack, afraid of immigration, afraid of pandemic diseases, and afraid of poverty. This overreaction emboldened enemies, triggered brutality, infliction of unnecessary force, violation of basic human rights and civil liberties are sacrificed, sometimes never returned.

The Cold War was the most important political and diplomatic issue of the later half of the 20th Century. The main Cold War enemies were the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War got its name because both sides were afraid of fighting each other directly. In such a "hot war," nuclear weapons might destroy everything. So, instead, they fought each other indirectly. They played havoc with conflicts in different parts of the world. They also used words as weapons. They threatened and denounced each other. For nearly half a century, the elusive threat posed by the Soviet Union formed the basis of American foreign and domestic policy. Much of the United States' political and economic development was in fact a product of the government's exploitation of a supposed Soviet menace.

The collapse of the Soviet Union denied the American government the ability to exploit the fear of Marxism to its own benefit. It was as if the American government had lost its reason for being. Former Soviet foreign spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov warned the United States: “We have done the most terrible thing to you that we could possibly have done. We have deprived you of an enemy.”

The fall left the US government without a justification for its existence. The state no longer enjoyed an overbearing threat with which to distract the masses while it grew in size. A new enemy was the need of the hour otherwise the populace would get used to not being afraid. The new boogeyman was given the name of Osama bin Laden and his organization was christened Al-Qaeda. The stage was created for the new monster to instill fear in the people—fear of global terrorism. Hence, we have 9/11!

The world was swept with terror frenzy. The past decade witnessed the development of an overwhelming American fear of terrorism. A direct attack on the United States provided all the justification necessary to intervene both in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan. Both wars were supposedly fought to protect Americans from the suspect threat of global terrorism. The elusive threat of terrorism justified numerous infringements on the individual rights of citizens. Terrorism posed no threat to individual freedoms. Yet, the greatest threat to freedom proved to be, not the terrorists, but the very governments that purportedly protects Americans.

The fear that an American is likely to be killed by a terrorist is nothing but a scam. Based on global statistics Americans are much more likely to die of AIDS, malaria, in road accident, by being murdered, by a tsunami or an earthquake, or by other natural and man-made causes. There are far greater chances of dying by smoking, alcohol, obesity, etc etc. In fact, food is far greater threat than terrorism simply based on the fact that nearly half the adults are overweight.

The number of people killed by terrorist acts is minuscule compared to the number of people killed in other ways. The total number of people out of 310 million ever killed by terrorism in the last 10 years is less than 3100. That is a probability of 0.001%. So chances are 99.9% people will not die of terrorism. So why then are we afraid of terrorists so much? American government has a vested interest in overstating the risk of people especially American people dying by a terrorist act. They have a vested interest in creating this state of fear in the minds of the people.

The years following the end of the Korean War witnessed the development of the American military-industrial complex and the foundation of a permanent wartime military. Fear of an inevitable war and the consequent exploitation of such fear led to the creation of a sprawling military-industrial complex. A growing military required armaments, encouraging the enlargement of a permanent war-materiel industry. Politicians readily justified different military

programmes just to necessitate the continued production of war supplies. The US initiates wars in different areas to keep its armament factories running.

Another explanation for this terrorism hysteria has little or nothing to do with terror, but a great deal with the American economic system. America’s brand of capitalism functions first and foremost to make extremely rich Americans even richer. Without warm or cold wars, however, this system can no longer produce the expected result in the form of the ever-higher profits the moneyed and powerful of America consider as their birthright.

Washington’s military spending orgy brought great benefits to the businesspeople and corporations, who realized extraordinary profits. Historian Stuart D. Brandes writes that between 1942 and 1945, the net profits of America’s 2,000 biggest firms were more than 40 per cent higher than during the period 1936-1939; such a “profit boom” was possible, he explains, because the state ordered billions of dollars of military equipment.

The justification for keeping these armament factories running is to protect the citizens from terrorists. Another blatant lie! The government cannot even protect the citizens from petty burglars and muggers much less terrorists! The UK government could not protect its citizens from the London train bombings. The Indonesian government could not prevent the Bali bombings. The Indian government couldn’t prevent the Mumbai attacks. And the US government was unable to prevent 9/11. America declares war on whatever they don't like and overlook everything else.

The biggest threat Pakistanis face is the fact that our governments, regardless of their party, do not care about the people, they are only interested in licking the American boots. Americans are not capable of protecting us from terrorists when they are the very cause of terrorism in the first place. In all historical examples of global terrorism, it was always some group fighting some government. Yes, civilians were targets, but the real enemy was the government because they had been wronged by the government. They have a grievance against governments not citizens.

The Irish IRA had a grievance against the British government. They wanted the British out of Ireland. So they waged a terror "war" for ages until it became apparent they could not win by military means - so the two parties sat down to talk. People in Pakistan have a grievance against America, not because we hate their freedoms, but because we hate their government interfering in our affairs.

All the "terrorist" threat talk by government is pure propaganda and media hype because it creates fear and forces people to submit to government. It makes one give up freedom for the sake of security. The government clearly has an agenda here -- to scare the citizen so much that spying on his life will no longer be objected. It also fulfills government desire to expand its size and be more interfering into lives of people.

The bottom line is: The "war on terror" is a scam. It's a clever subterfuge to use fear of the unknown to drive a totalitarian agenda through the legislative chambers of so-called democracies in the so-called free world.

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