Feels like the shock is of terrorism is over. We aren't going to end terrorism by starting wars overseas. A little sad but in a "lost innocence" kind of way.
Agreed. After reading the late Chalmers Johnson "Empire" series along with some of the things Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA Bin Laden group sez among others, I'm more convinced these wars do nothing more than act as a motivation to incite acts of terrorism. In fact I've reached the conclusion than certain vested interests actually want these attacks for a variety of reasons. Former FBI translator and whistle blower Sibel Edmonds has been talking about Chechnya for several years and few listened and here we are but it's also coming out that Tamerlan Tsarnaev attended a CIA sponsored workshop put on by the Jamestown Foundation last year when he was home in Chechnya. If you look up Jamestown Foundation in SourceWatch, you'll find some interesting names associated with the organization. Looking further you'll see Jamestown under the umbrella of Freedom House and connected also to American Committee for Peace in Chechnya and again looking at the membership, an interesting cast of characters appear. I might add that Michael Scheuer is also a member and senior fellow with Jamestown so even his words have to be back sourced verified. For some background on Sibel Edmonds, in the "media bias" thread I posted an article by Ron Unz entitled American Pravda and Ron delves a little into Sibel and her story.
Initially we were told the Tsarnaev brothers were unknowns and almost lead to believe as RoadRunner rightly pointed out that these 2 were just on their versions of Bill and Ted's Great Adventure. In the initial day or 2 after the event, I thought lone wolf and then as we learned of the brothers initially, Road's "Bill and Ted" made sense. As the days have gone by we learn these 2, their family and surrounding environs were in fact known, maybe well known and they weren't as disconnected as we were initially lead to believe. As the days went by even the Tsarnaev uncle it was learned had CIA connections as his former father-n-law Graham Fuller, a former CIA official was outed.
Correlation does not imply causation but I don't think this cast of characters should be ignored either. People don't trust the gov't not so much because it's gov't, well some that, but rather because more and more they are caught lying to us. At some point any rational person will just stop believing a known liar even when they might even be telling the truth.
For me, the gov't has to prove any and all claims they make now regardless what they are because they've proven themselves liars and it makes no difference the issue or what political party holds the reigns of power at any given time. And with all the hidden vested interests involved regardless of the issue, we should be making them prove every point. But we don't and thus the source of our own downfall.
Naomi is right, we should be wising up!
