Bit of a Freudian slip lol. They are celebrating because it gave them everything they wanted. Inflated military budget and infinite surveillance state. The only cost was millions of lives, but who’s counting?
The only costAnother benefit was millions of livesmillions of lives2,977 lives. The others don’t count by their measure.I dunno. You don’t think they’ve realize that they’ve been had? The goal was to get the US to overextend and boy howdy did it work
you’d think so but they just don’t learn
Part of why it worked is because the energy and weapons industries stand to gain just as much from weakening and consuming their own host as they have from plundering the rest of the world.
It is a clever insight indeed.
Predictably, the PNAC report also called for major annual increases in defense spending but noted ruefully that the money and political will needed to achieve “tomorrow’s military dominance” was likely to take a long time to muster “absent some catastrophic event — like a new Pearl Harbor.”
yeah rove and rumsfeld pulled it off just as they had planned

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I mean… some people are.


…and a day after the first celebration of the kirkening

i am picturing some event organizer not alive during the event completely misreading the observance of 9/11 after decades of garish remembrances and like some MAGA-vibe ultra patriotic flag fucking event popping off with speakers playing the hook from Kool & the Gang’s Celebration.
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I’ll be dancing on the rooftops like every year














