Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened that day. archive

  • Codex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    4 months ago

    I, like most of the millenial lemmings it seems, am not shocked about this. I remember what Dubya said as president, the daily evils. I would have never thought it could get worse and then we got Trump, and I think it all does echoes out from 9/11. If there are future historians, 9/11 is going to be the pivot that this entire century stumbles over, probably leading directly to WW3 any day now.

    But when I see articles like this, (in the Atlantic ofc, always this one or the NYT) my nostrils fill up with the smell of consent being manufactured. Has the shadow council decided that we shall war with the Saudis now? With Russia and China just flat-out taking land now, has the US decided to extend it’s “protection” more directly over a few strategic areas?

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      9/11 is going to be the pivot that this entire century stumbles over

      November 2000 was a bigger pivot - when Bush and the Republican Supreme Court simply took the Presidency.

    • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      320·
      4 months ago

      I always laugh when americans make everything about themselves. Pivot point? Main cause of WW3? Entire century stumbles over?

      Give me a break dude. It was a terror attack that had more victims than usual. It’s about as relevant to today as the Great Depression.