Quote Originally Posted by harris7
One last thing.

I never said I didnâ??t believe he did it.
I acutely believe that Middle eastern terrorists flew the planes into the buildings. I donâ??t really care who â??mastermindedâ?ť it.

I believe the use of Osama by the government and the media is to give the public someone to direct their anger from the events at. It is necessary to give the public an object to hate and â??warâ?ť against, being at war with terrorism is too intangible to sustain a war effort.

Blind the public with their emotions then attack an unrelated country...
Smart government, dumb public
Now you're making some sense. It was our fault for arming the people that became Taliban and Al Quada, but the government wanted to stop Communist expansion in Afghanistan. I would have let the Russians have the place. The people that we helped set up one of the worst regimes in the world - the Taliban, who repaid us by harboring bin laden and his ilk. One of the main resentments that bin laden had toward the U.S., besides the fact that we're not Islamic, was the fact that we provided military advisors and weapons, but not enough military support! After the way the idiotic Carter administration fucked-up in the Iran hostage crisis, I guess they figured we would back down after 9/11, also.