Someone, cant recall who, think it was you PK said that the Pentagon was OK but the Twin Towers were not.
Well in that case why did bomber command risk all those lives in WW2 doing in economic targets? Not just the buildings, those who worked in them, even though they knew that they were mainly staffed by forced labour?
We have come along way since the days of 19th century colonialism, we now know its cheaper to buy out the Governments, rather than invade, in the same way its cheaper to pay people near starvation rates of pay than physically enslave them, far too expensive.
Now one of the major businesses in one of the towers was Cantor Fitzgerald, they were one of the largest Government bond brokers in the world, with an active emerging markets desk. What it meant in practice was that a guy on dealing desk there would take a view on the sovreign debt of a certain country and mark it down or up as he/the firm thought the market was going to move. Effectively, they could, and still can make the difference between a third world country getting face value for its bonds, or perhaps only 25% of that face value, with the result that said country pays 4 times the interest the rest of us would.
The Twin Towers were not just a symbol of the US world economic domination, it was actually the place where a lot of it went on.
I in no way say this as some sort of excuse, I knew people at that firm and others, I have been caught up in bomb blasts in the City, I know very well what its like.
BUT, for a terrorist or guerilla, the economic war is often where his/her greivance first started, the little brother that died cos their was no money for a doctor, the debt that held a family in virtual slavery for generations etc, and they look up and at the pinnacle of this economic system stands the US.
Whatever excuse is used, and it has changed in my lifetime from primarily political social justice/socialist justifications to the current twisted versions of the Holy Koran, they are just that-excuses and justifications almost invariably provided by men who think the world would be better if THEY ran it-bollocks.
So motivated by envy and ego they will ALWAYS find an excuse, but then so will we, when seeking vengence-an eye for an eye- we dress it up in a spurious cloak of justice.
There is no Justice here, as there was no justice for those who died on the 11th September. There are just clashing egos, Bush, Blair, our saintly leader, Bin Laden, another who claims to do Gods work- the lot of them, each convinced they know whats best and that they have the stuff that GREAT MEN are made of. Save us from Great Men, for their deeds are measured in piles of dead.
