(np) good article for today

[Michael Bailey]

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/10/september-11-america-response/

….The “it,” then, that Rumsfeld wanted to destroy on 9/11 was almost
certainly every frustration he felt at the rest of humanity. This started
with Al Qaeda and easily extended to Saddam and Iraq. But we can be sure
that he also hoped to cow all the non-white people around the globe who
were generally failing to comply. Next he could overwhelm the obstinate
Europeans with their affectations to a higher morality. Obviously the
Democrats, who continually tried to steal his money, would have to be
crushed. And then at long last his daughter, going to Oberlin and dating
that white guy with dreads, would see the error of her ways.

Of course, this doesn’t make “sense” in the way we want to think of it. But
neither has the “war on terror.” It’s been 20 years of mindless violence,
cruelty, and waste, the U.S. lashing out like a gigantic beast without a
functioning frontal cortex, visiting numberless 9/11s on innocents as it
staggered around the globe. But that does make sense if you ignore all the
speeches and op-eds and instead start from the presumption that the
political class running this country is overflowing with the primate wrath
of the powerful who are nonetheless not omnipotent….