Posted by sigismund on September 11, 2011, at 21:03:03
In reply to Re: 9/11 » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on September 11, 2011, at 19:24:44
The letters to the Herald today all remarked on the way that lives outside the empire or worth so much less. I understand it is more complex than that, overall. That life on the fringes of the American Imperium has suffered dreadful conflict, but that, as empires go, it has allowed the constituent parts a reasonable degree of freedom (not in South America).
It was an spectacular and terrible event which has had a toxic legacy, and seems to have been successful in its aim of damaging and destabilising the US.
Melvyn Leffnner is a professor of history in the US. He had a good article in the press. The coverage here has been, in the tabloids and TV, mind-numbing and unenlightening, as you would expect.
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