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Reasons to Doubt the Official Story about the 9/11 Attacks
By Andrew Mills (about the author) Page 4 of 4 page(s)
The grand obsession of the core group of neocons is the dream of establishing a global Pax Americana, a dream articulated by many neocons during the 1990s. It was first officially presented in the Defense Planning Guidance of 1992, drafted by Paul Wolfowitz on behalf of then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. According to these neocons, achieving the goal of American global hegemony would require five things:
o Control of the world's oil
o Transformation of the military involving weaponization of space
o An enormous increase in military spending
o A modification of the doctrine of preemptive attack so the U.S. could launch such attacks even in the absence of an imminent attack by another country, and
o A spectacularly frightening event to make the American people ready to accept these global hegemonic policies.
This same idea was suggested in Rebuilding America's Defenses, a document published in the fall of 2000 by a neocon think tank, Project for the New American Century. Referring to the goal of transforming the military, this document said that this "process of transformation . . . is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event---like a new Pearl Harbor."
When the attacks of 9/11 occurred, they were in fact treated like a new Pearl Harbor. For they created opportunities to fulfill what the neocons had considered the necessary conditions for bringing about a Pax Americana. The 9/11 attacks allowed the Bush-Cheney administration to attack Afghanistan and then Iraq, to begin effecting the technological transformation of the military, to get huge increases in military spending, and to declare, with little protest, a new doctrine of preventive-preemptive warfare, which became known as "the Bush doctrine."
This new doctrine was first fully articulated in the Administration's 2002 version of the National Security Strategy (generally known as NSS 2002), whose primary author was Philip Zelikow. It was he who later served as the Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission. NSS 2002 turned the new doctrine of preventive-preemptive warfare into official American policy and it also observed: "The events of September 11, 2001...opened vast, new opportunities."
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The wrong-headed and un-American policies pursued by the present Administration (e.g., pre emptive war, promoting and condoning torture, rendition, restricting the application of the writ of habeas corpus, wiretapping, etc.) have their roots in the 9/11 attacks. It behooves us to take a much closer look at what happened that day and during the preceding weeks. The American people have the right to a new truly independent commission to investigate the full story of 9/11 including the many still unanswered questions about the attacks.
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