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So Obama's preacher got him in hot water with his 'sermons' about us foreign policy and it's consequences.Obama is, of course, all over it, rejecting, denouncing, condemning. The MSM consensus seems to be that this is an 'extremist',"radical' opinion. They just can't get their head around how anyone who doesn't hate america could believe that 9-11 ,etc. could be a result of our imperialist meddling in other people's business.
I have lots of problems with this. For one, it is a sacred tradition in this country to call out our government whenever it behaves badly.They are supposed to be our servants and should be held accountable and made to answer such important charges.
For another, it is no secret that the CIA, et al, have been busy , for 60+ years, doing horrible things in our name. Coups, assasinations, kidnapping, fomenting revolution, subverting Democracy , all over the world.And theres the 'soft' power, employed most recently by Clinton, thru the IMF, WTO, etc.... ruining economies of countries that don't roll over for us corporations.

And yet, in America, we can't discuss this? The lunatics and warmongers get a free pass?
On 9-11-01, once I realised what was happening, the first thing to enter my mind was that this was retaliation for our CorpGov's meddling around the world. " chickens coming home to roost..."
The right wing has so poisoned the American mind that we can no longer think!(see alternet, sara robinson has a great series on how they did it...)
It's just like the 'discussion' about Israel.( Let me say, 1st, that I have roots in Bohemian Jewdom.) When someone, like me, now, calls a spade a spade, and says that the Israelis are behaving like Nazi's, suddenly I'm an antisemite!
It doesn't matter one whit if it's objectively true. Even Jimmy Carter was eviscerated for speaking the plain truth. The list is long... Ward Churchill, Chomsky, etc.etc.
I'll go even further and say that it looks to me that at least elements of our government perpetrated 9-11.(Heresy!) This is where the facts and inconsistencies lead me and I am unapologetic.
Bin Laden was , after all, a CIA asset in Afghanistan against the Russians.
It becomes increasingly difficult to determine the shape of the world as ideology trumps reason and the water is systematically muddied and any dissent is condemned as treason. We are expected to be turnips... falling anew off the truck each day, into a brand new world in which what has gone before is what they tell us has gone before. A clean slate.A blank page. No thought, no memory, and no hope.