To: sea_urchin who wrote (12341 ) 2/20/2006 7:35:11 PM From: sea_urchin Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20039 A Half-Dozen Questions About 9/11 They Don't Want You to Askcounterpunch.org >>Who Is Osama? Where Did He Come From? How Did He Escape? What About Those Anthrax Attacks? Etc Is it plausible that the United States Military, disposing of 1.4 million active duty troops and a million reservists, could not scare up 800 additional troops to capture what was then characterized as a fiend in human form? Perhaps the then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Richard Myers, explained it best in a CNN interview on 6 April 2002, well after the hunt for bin Laden had apparently been concluded: "Well, if you remember, if we go back to the beginning of this segment, the goal has never been to get bin Laden." [10] What can one conclude from this series of questions? If the 9/11 mystery is like other great, mysterious events--such as the Kennedy assassination--the course is probable. For a year or two, raw emotion over the event forecloses inquiry; for the next several years after that, the public's attention wanes, and the desire to forget the painful memory predominates. In a decade or so, though, some debunker will bring new facts into the public arena for the edification of those Americans, then in late middle age, who will view 9/11 as an intellectual puzzle: far from the urgent concerns of their daily lives. Many people may, by that time, accept that the official explanation is bunk, and suspect that the government had once again tricked the American public, those ever-willing foils in the eternal Punch-and-Judy show. But the majority will neither know nor care about obscure international relationships during a bygone era.<<