Huh? on 9/11 posted by Richard Seymour

September 11th was not a wake-up call to the mortal danger of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism facing the west; on the contrary, what the WTC attacks showed is that Al Qaeda is not a threat at all.

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Flying two planes into the World Trade Center is the most gruesome demonstration of the truth of the old cliché that terrorism is the weapon of the weak. It’s a terrifying illustration of the strength of the forces arrayed against humanity that even the powerless can kill 3000 people: but that’s how it is, and, if we want to be able to change this, we need to understand these forces.

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The pro-war Left like to accuse anti-war forces of an immature, knee-jerk oppositionism, but we should be clear about this: with their subsititution of emotional moralism for a serious political analysis, the pro-war Left are romantics in the most teenaged sense.