WHY DO ATTACKS HAPPEN WHENEVER PUBLIC APPROVAL RATINGS FOR ILLEGAL WARS PLUMMET?
What happened on 11 September was a historic event-not, unfortunately, because of its scale. It is unpleasant to think about, but the scale was not that unusual. It’s a historic event because there was a change in the direction in which the guns were pointed. The last time that the national territory of the United States was under attack was when the British burned down Washington in 1814. There have been many recent references to Pearl Harbor. But that’s not a good analogy. The Japanese bombed military bases in two US colonies-colonies which had been taken from their inhabitants in not a very pretty way. During these close to 200 years since the last attack on the national territory the US expelled or mostly exterminated the indigenous population (that’s many millions of people), conquered half of Mexico, carried out depredations all over the region (the Caribbean and Central America) and sometimes beyond, and conquered Hawaii and the Philippines, killing several hundred thousand Fili
