WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back and enjoy themselves while the United States collapses of its own accord.
I’d argue that 9/11 was successful in destabilizing the US and the precipitating event in the rise of US fascism. Capitalist greed was the accelerant
Personally, I think it is the other way around. The Heritage Foundation existed long before 9/11. They just needed a way to offer centrists plausible deniability for handing over the reins of power.
We were already well on our way to a fascist capitalistic hellhole after Nixon and Regan. 9/11 just allowed the mask to come off of parts of the fascism and solidified the cycle of economic downturn every few years.
We never solved the Civil War, which was caused because it was founded by rich, racist assholes.
We were fucked from the jump. Especially because we inherited Roman judicial process.
Everyone forgets the rise of domestic right wing terrorists through the 90s. If 9/11 did anything it was to delay it by a decade.
All their crazies got shipped off to Afghanistan and Iraq to commit war crimes there. America wasn’t actively engaged in war since withdrawing from Iraq in 2011. Afghanistan was scaled back. It’s no coincidence domestic issues came to the forefront over the ensuing decade.
Perhaps even the wars in the middle east trained a generation of extremists to be more violent.
Very true, we were well on our way to fascism the moment we allowed nazis to live in the US after the war. The fascism of the US today is the centuries of imperialism turned inward in order to save capitalism from crisis
I’d argue that isn’t exactly what they wanted… it’s like chopping down a tree and it lands on your house. Not ideal.