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Republican Jesusites cannot tolerate anything other than total loyalty to their incoherent and contradictory world view.
9/11 worked exactly as OBL intended it to, it drove the US completely insane, provoked a counter religious extremism, and caused us to destroy ourselves.
To be fair the US was already bombing and destroying the place before 9/11. That's the whole reason in the OBL letter to begin with (especially the colonization of Palestine). OBL just accelerated it a bit. The US could afford to do a bit of plundering and colonialism but their military budget has completely spiraled out of control and now it's eating itself.
Oh absolutely, 9/11 didn't occur out of nothing and nowhere.
To me, the main point to drive home to Americans is we lost, we did what he wanted us to do.
We took the bait, hook, line and sinker.
We made a fundamental strategic blunder, and effectively, it seems to be our... collective character, hubris, as operationalized by our flawed social and government structures, that is what made that blunder.
Afghanistan remains the graveyard of western empires.
Its just hard to get across to many Americans the idea that we can and have totally failed, because our national myth/religion is American Exceptionalism, the overriding supremacist idea that there is some magic force that makes us better.
We are going to have to actually, truly internalize having fucked up continuously, for a long time now... that we're losers, not winners, that we are being humbled because we are not invincible, nor infallible.