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Ouroboros posted:Of course they were, that was my point? To say that Bush's administration could have done what it did in Iraq and Afghanistan without 9/11, I don't see how. Not anywhere near as easily and quickly as they did. I don't recall the exact term being bandied about at the time, but the idea as summarized during the early Bush administration was... call it "disaster politics." To wit, the GOP had seen the power in making wedge issues and opportunistic plays out of random events, and set in ready to very deliberately exploit the hell out of any such events as they emerged. This wasn't the first time someone had tried to blow up the WTC, this wasn't the first incidence of someone flinging planes into buildings. US foreign policy and actions were already fueling violent blowback. So they knew something was coming, because peaceful times never last forever (especially when you're the one stirring the pot up for trouble), and were ready to leap on anything. All it took was something to give them an excuse, and they "luckily" got a wildly dramatic one. It's disaster planning, but for moving as quickly as possible to gently caress people over after the disaster instead of mitigating it.
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