i’m beginning to believe the emotions our electorate are so predictable and easy to manipulate that i’m beginning to wonder… well, i’m beginning to wonder whether 9/11 wasn’t *designed* to do this to our country. because i just finished ion mihai pacepa’s Programmed to Kill, which argues the KGB was responsible for JFK’s assassination, and also Anatoliy Golitsyn’s New Lies for Old, which among other things alleges that Soviet strategies for subverting the West were based on Western responses to actual crises – Lenin’s New Economic Policy and the post-Stalin Hungarian revolt primary among them. These responses were then used to politically split the West in later strategic operations.
Now, both of these authors are controversial, to say the least. Leave that to one side.
What I’ve begun to be struck by is the way the political environment post-9/11 sort of resembles the post-Kennedy Assassination divisions – not exactly, but suggestively. I should add that I do believe the 9/11 attack was really the work of the KGB/FSB – after all, Arabs can’t do anything right, and this whole alQaeda thing, regarded historically, would be the most successful thing they’ve done in about 1000 years.
In any case, I’m beginning to wonder about the role of disinformation. Some of the idiocies passing as criticisms are, even on an emotional level, suspiciously absurd. Suspiciously, I say.
