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Which is the more likely motive... using the principle of occam's razor...
The criticism is that the following list is far too complicated to apply to the above principle. What follows is an exercise in eliminating assumptions...
Terrorists: They hate us for our liberty. Simple to be sure. Yet under this logic, Santa is the more likely explanation for presents under the tree than numerous trips to stores by parents, ordering online, wrapping, etc.
Neo-cons: a single minded, 30 year effort to position the US as the sole, perpetual, global superpower to secure for all time "American Interests".
I presented the following list in another thread to make this point. In the next post we'll take these point by point and discuss their credibility.
is a principle of parsimony, economy, or succinctness used in logic and problem-solving. It states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. In other words, the simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
The application of the principle often shifts the burden of proof in a discussion.[SUP][a][/SUP] The razor states that one should proceed to simpler theories until simplicity can be traded for greater explanatory power. The simplest available theory need not be most accurate. Philosophers also point out that the exact meaning of simplest may be nuanced.
The criticism is that the following list is far too complicated to apply to the above principle. What follows is an exercise in eliminating assumptions...
Terrorists: They hate us for our liberty. Simple to be sure. Yet under this logic, Santa is the more likely explanation for presents under the tree than numerous trips to stores by parents, ordering online, wrapping, etc.
Neo-cons: a single minded, 30 year effort to position the US as the sole, perpetual, global superpower to secure for all time "American Interests".
I presented the following list in another thread to make this point. In the next post we'll take these point by point and discuss their credibility.
- Let's start with the Bush/bin Laden family connections going back to at least the mid 70s
- At the same time Bush Sr became CIA chief, Salem bin Laden invested in GW Jr's first failed energy company aptly named, Arbusto, and Osama became a CIA asset.
- Osama received guidance and funding in part from another Bush ally, The Saudi Royal Family... I think we all remember Jr kissing the Saudi prince on the lips post 9-11.
- Also during Bush Sr's tenure as CIA director, shady links to a CIA money laundering front for heroin from Afghanistan, BCCI began to be forged.
- Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, et al have not only been implicated, they boast of their involvement in two previous conspiracies, the Halloween Massacre and the Team B disinformation scam perpetrated on congress in the 80s. The noble lie... their stock and trade.
- These same men write a manifesto summarizing their 30 year effort to position the US as the sole superpower to secure "american interests". This 96 page document, the 30 years of deception and singular career goals that led to it, all the lofty goals it aims to reach... is not worth the paper it's printed on without a 9-11 event. Without it, the window of opportunity for sole, perpetual superpower status would soon close and cannot ever be realized. Their life's work wasted, their plan for global military and economic domination missed. This alone is far more motive than can be ascribed to any terrorist.
- One of those resource/business "interests" for nearly twenty years was a pipeline worth several trillion in revenue for it's operators over several decades. This is stated in the RAD document.
- One of the military interests was repositioning our troops from cold war europe to permanent (though at the time non-existent) bases closer to Asia, the only source for a challenge to US military and economic hegemony, China and India. This is also clearly stated in the RAD manifesto.
- Failing economic pressures to constrain rising superpowers, a strong military would be needed to decisively put down any challengers to US global hegemony, even to the point of fighting multiple major theater wars ala WWII. Again, clearly stated in the RAD, again, not worth the paper without an attack.
- Further stated in the RAD document, and in the interest of the neocon agenda of militarizing the US (also clearly stated in RAD), the current highly contested $50 billion defense budget would need to increase to $350 billion to accomplish these goals... again, merely a wish without an attack.
- Cheney, Michael Ledeen and Wolfowitz referred to themselves and the neo-cons as "democratic revolutionaries" and embraced concepts like; the Noble Lie, enter into evil to do good, manipulation of morals within the masses, preemptive war and total war.
- BuCheney not only did nothing concerning terrorism prior to 9-11, they actively put down attempts to address it until the day before the attacks.
- Prior to taking office, while giving terrorism a free pass, the BuCheney admin were drawing up detailed plans to invade Iraq, again, a waste of time without a massive attack... by the terrorists the ignored.
- Every single key critical position was occupied by a core neocon. From airport and WTC security, to our national defense, to the planned exercises that involved every single asset available on the eastern seaboard.
- The day of 9-11, the entire response infrastructure of the most powerful nation in history was brought to it's knees, hands tied, massive confusion in yet another miraculous, unprecedented number of missed opportunities. Hundreds of highly trained personnel couldn't tell which end was up. This infrastructure is designed to work even if there are line of command failures. However, they are bound to obey command directives. Where did that buck stop on 9-11?
- During the attacks, the man in charge of our national defense went MIA for almost an hour... out on the Pentagon lawn playing medic.
- Also during the attacks, the CIC was incommunicado on AF1, then sequestered in a bunker, completely out of the loop.
- Cheney was the only person in direct control of every single aspect of our response. This is NOT his job. Can you imagine Dan Quayle or Al Gore in such a role?
- Within 48 hours it was announced we knew who all 19 hijackers were, despite not being able to produce a passenger manifest listing them, nor a single frame of video showing them in the concourse or boarding the plane.
- At the same time, we were told, two days later, we should ignore wild conspiracy theories and just go shopping.
- We are further told, again and again, by all admin officials, that we must suspend our most patriotic duty, especially in times of crisis, vigilance and skepticism of our gov't and the individuals running it and proclaim the only patriotism is blind support of the admin.
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy”
James Madison quotes
“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
Plato quotes
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”
John Philpot Curran quotes
“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”
Pearl S. Buck quotes (American author, 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)
- We are also told that not one eyewitness or direct victim is to be given credence, the admin and intel already have it all figured out.
- The only investigation initiated involved structural engineers who admirably volunteered, with a budget 1/10th ($500k) of that immediately given to the Smithsonian ($5m) to collect "artifacts" and items of interest like door knobs. No professional crime scene/disaster investigators were employed, no SOP was followed.
- When the grieving family members of the victims, those that lost the most, those that suffered the only deaths on the Continental US in an act of foreign terrorism, asked, then demanded a proper investigation... they were told no.
- When public pressure rose, the biggest mockery of an official investigation was assembled, again with carefully appointed neocon friendly sycophants.
- Breaking all known precedents, procedures, decorum, sense, Cheney and Bush were allowed to testify together, in private, with no oath and no record. This alone should be enough to worry and spark grave skepticism in every citizen. No record? One could choke down the rest, but no record?
- Following 9-11, the miracle that saved their life's work, the Manifesto of the PNAC RAD document was followed to the letter, and still is.
- All crime scene evidence was either ignored or quickly disposed of in violation of proper investigative procedure.