The absence of patience with competing schools of thought that would interpret nine oleven n this way is just functionally considered bin laden's point of view and never to be given respectability. And as a result, you get what you see on t v after byden withdraws troops from afghanistan. Not a historical analysis, not a material analysis, not an effort to understand how it was that a defeated enemy after nine 11, can spend the next 20 years exploiting every american mistake as they compound and come back to power. But this is what happens when you dominate other peoples. Some of it will justify itself in religious terms. Some ofIt will justify itself on philosophical terms.
Episode one of The Dig's three-part War on Terror series the with Spencer Ackerman: 9/11, bipartisan war fever, and George W. Bush.
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