9/11 and the Imperial Adventure in Afghanistan
CounterPunch
by Larry Everest
10/22/08
The war in Afghanistan is not a “good war” gone bad. It’s been an unjust, imperialist war of conquest and empire from its inception. Part 1 documents the U.S. rulers’ efforts in the 1990s, after the Soviet Union’s collapse, to begin forging an unchallengeable global empire, which laid the groundwork for the so-called “war on terror.” Part 2 details how, immediately after 9/11, the Bush regime conceived and launched the so-called “war on terror” in order to achieve these imperialist aims, which had been a decade in the making. About five hours after hijacked jets crashed into the World Trade Center and then the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, George W. Bush’s Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld turned to an aide and told him to begin drawing up plans for war. His instructions: “Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related [to the attacks] and not"...
http://counterpunch.org/everest10222008.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rumsfeld
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Larry+Everest
by Larry Everest
10/22/08
The war in Afghanistan is not a “good war” gone bad. It’s been an unjust, imperialist war of conquest and empire from its inception. Part 1 documents the U.S. rulers’ efforts in the 1990s, after the Soviet Union’s collapse, to begin forging an unchallengeable global empire, which laid the groundwork for the so-called “war on terror.” Part 2 details how, immediately after 9/11, the Bush regime conceived and launched the so-called “war on terror” in order to achieve these imperialist aims, which had been a decade in the making. About five hours after hijacked jets crashed into the World Trade Center and then the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, George W. Bush’s Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld turned to an aide and told him to begin drawing up plans for war. His instructions: “Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related [to the attacks] and not"...
http://counterpunch.org/everest10222008.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rumsfeld
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Larry+Everest
rudkla - 23. Okt, 11:24
