joutwest wrote
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SOO it is OUR fault (all of US) because "Bush and Saudi Arabia offended a mass of people"? It was enough for them to declare war on us because Clinton offended someone? Bush Sr.? Let me tell you this - of course America offended them!! Woman's rights offends them, homosexuality offends them, freedom of expression offends them, Hollywood offends them, capitialism offends them, secularism offends them... So we are to stop being who we are because some murdering extremists get offended??? We deserve to die - all of US - because some nut takes offense at who we are, what God we pray to (or not), and our very freedoms?
I agree 100%. Thank you for saying it.
Churchill is not presuming that 911 was an inside job, so please keep that out of it as it has nothing whatsoever to do with his essay.
Essentially, he is saying that the US did things to other people that caused them to take this action. He said that the people who worked in the towers were Adolph Eichmann's BECAUSE Eichmann did not kill anyone himself, instead he worked on machines that would. The people in the trade centers were at the helm of Capitalism. They were stokebrokers and banking people, and by working towards a capitalist society that allows the US to be the place in the world with the highest standard of living, instead of spreading the wealth so the things were more equal they attacked those targets. He said that some of the people that worked in the towers were also working on projects or contracts with the US Government. This means they were cogs in the machine that enabled the government to work. This means they were complicit in actions the government takes.
What this means in another context is this: Suppose that a group of Mexicans decided that they were poor and we were rich. That we took their land, and they want it back. That thousands had died because we did not give them more money to fix that problem. Then suppose they blew up the Border Partol building in LA along with Los Alamos national labs and then they blew up the University of San Diego because they have labs there that work on government projects that may be used in warfare.
Did they have reasons? Yes. Were they wronged in the past? Yes. Do we have more wealth than them? Yes. Would you say that we should expect this? NO.
Should we have just decided that Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor was to be expected because we were blocking their ability to trade where they wanted? Under Churchill's logic they had every right to do this. We should be understanding of this.
Churchill is a communist. I do not say that lightly, I say it because it's true. To him, no one has ever done anything to anyone else except the US. The US has done it all. He is stuck in moral relativism, and stuck in the idea that wealth must be redistributed because othewise people feel they are getting a bad deal and they will NATURALLY want to attack us....and according to him ALL of us are fair game unless we are "workers". So if you own something, or you work in government, or you employ people and maybe have a contract with the government you are guilty of supporting the system that puts other people down.
More importantly Churchill ignores that in the middle east there are more wars betweeen members of those countries that killed more people than we ever did. He ignores the Iraq/Iran war, the Iranian killing machine, the war in Yemen, the war in Algeria, the war in Chad, Quadafi's attempts to kill the Saudis, Syria's attempt to invade Jordan (which was prevented) and a 100 other wars in Muslim lands that have never had anything to do with the west.
Churchill sits in his Ivory Tower, taking full advantage of his protected status, his decent salary, his purchased home, his comfortable life and decides to pass judgement on everyone else....when he is just as much to blame, even by his own criteria as anyone in the world trade centers were. I wish he would volunteer himself up to act as blood libel for the rest of us who do not feel that we are to blame. I hope that gmanders and onlyinny understand that according to this guy they are legitimate targets, collateral damage, just to stop the economy of the US.
Should he be teaching our kids? I don't know. Where is the line? What if he was to teach them that abortion was murder? That evolution is riddled with holes such that no one could believe it? That Native Americans reservations should be abolished? That African Americans have less IQ than others? Would you still support his right to teach this? Believe me, I've heard very convincing arguments, however offensive they may be, for all of the preceeding lines of inquiry. It's really easy to say he has the right to teach it when it doesn't offend you personally right?
Should any professor be able to teach anything they wish? If so, should the University be required to provide an option to students so they do not have to take classes with this professor? If parents boycott that program and the school loses students and all the rest of the professors have to lose their jobs because of this one person is that okay too?
I don't want to stop Churchill from saying anything he wants. However, I don't want him teaching my kids that. I won't send my children to learn from him....would you? Should the school, the state, his fellow professors suffer the consequences of his folly?