Twenty Years Of Phony Tears About 9/11
By Caitlin Johnstone
September 13, 2021 -- "Information
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The mass
media are churning out articles and news segments commemorating
the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, many of them featuring
adoring retrospectives of their celebrity president’s actions as
a U.S. senator that day.
Biden’s ceremonial
PR tour to New York City, Pennsylvania and the Pentagon can
be expected to receive a great deal of coverage as outrage
swells over the president’s controversial new nationwide
vaccine mandate.
And it’s all just so very, very stupid. This nation which has
spent 20 years weeping about its victimization with Bambi-eyed
innocence reacted to 9/11 with wars which killed
millions and displaced
tens of millions and ushered in an unprecedented era of
military expansionism which has funneled trillions of dollars to
some of the worst people in the world.
The death and destruction visited upon Iraq alone dwarfs the
2,977 people killed on 9/11 by orders of magnitude; hell, this
was true of the death and destruction the U.S. had been
inflicting on Iraq
even before 9/11.
In a saner, more emotionally intelligent world, it is those deaths
that Americans would be focused on this Sept. 11.
There’s a
great thread being shared around on Twitter right now by
someone who found a book full of political cartoons published in
the wake of 9/11, and it’s a perfect reminder of just how insane
people were being driven by mass media manipulation during that
time. The brazen Islamophobia, the flag-waving jingoism, the
mawkish histrionics and the government bootlicking contained in
those vapid comics are like an emotional time portal back to the
lizard brain mentality of that point in history. I especially
recommend it to those who are too young to remember how people
came to support the monstrous foreign policy decisions made in
the aftermath of 9/11.
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It’s also an excellent lesson into why it is always best to
avoid being swept up in the emotionality of a major event that’s
getting a lot of narrative push, no matter how loudly the mass
media are shrieking about it and no matter how many of the
people around you get swept up in it.
There was no real reason Americans needed to respond to 9/11
with slobbering patriotism and the banging of war drums. It
would have made sense for everyone to feel shocked, afraid,
angry and sad, but that’s all that would have happened had their
minds not been manipulated by the mass media and the Bush
administration into believing that the sane response to a
terrorist attack is to start launching full-scale regime change
invasions of sovereign nations.
Americans could just as easily have felt sad for a bit, and
had that be the end of it. Imagine. Imagine what a better world
we’d be living in if the public had not consented to wars and
had instead just felt their feelings for however long it took to
feel them, and had that be that.
Without being told so by solemn-looking pundits and
politicians, it never would have occurred to ordinary people
that the sane response to an attack by Al Qaeda was to invade
and occupy Afghanistan, much less Iraq. People would’ve expected
to see the individuals responsible for the attacks captured and
brought to justice, just as they’d seen happen with every other
terrorist attack in their country, but on their own it would
never have occurred to them to think of it as an “act of war”
for which wars were an appropriate response.
But wars were
planned. The US had
already been
strategizing to oust the
Taliban before 9/11. Donald Rumsfeld was pushing for the Iraq
invasion
within hours of the planes striking.
Further wars were
planned
within days. The official 9/11
narrative itself was
riddled with gaping plot holes.
And mass media pundits were
fired if they didn’t support the Iraq invasion.
So people were
psychologically conditioned by mass-scale propaganda to believe
that 9/11 was some unforgivable atrocity so egregious that it
could only be paid for by rivers of blood. And that conditioning
remains today, as we will see from brainwashed empire pundits
weeping their crocodile tears on the 20th anniversary of an
event which, compared to the consequences of their government’s
retaliation, wasn’t actually a very big deal.
It would have been
infinitely better for everyone if America had done nothing,
absolutely nothing, in response to 9/11, or better yet if it had
left the Middle East altogether to make sure there are no
extremist groups wanting them dead due to their actions there.
But, again, wars were planned. And the public was
psychologically brutalized into accepting them.
This is what we should
all remember on 9/11. Not those 2,977 deaths on US soil. As sad
as they were, they’ve been grieved more than enough by the
general public. Now it’s time to begin addressing the giant
stain upon our collective soul that is the vastly greater evils
those deaths were exploited to justify.
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