Not letting the USA exploit the living shit out of the rest of the world actually would have unironically prevented 9/11 because then Osama Bin Laden wouldn’t have had a reason to hate the US for the economic terrorism that was so successful. He attacked the twin towers as the center of the US economic world for a reason.
I often wonder how Bin Laden would feel about our current own self-inflicted economic turmoil. Where Bin Laden failed, we managed to do to ourselves without any external pressure.
Tbf Bin Laden could easily have found a different reason to hate the US, or chosen a different target country. He did join the mujahedeen against the Sovjets/Russians first anyways
The airport being invasive has almost nothing to do with the attacks, since it’s effectively all security theater.
That had more to do with giving companies certain senators had investments in sweetheart deals to roll out full body x-ray scanners. It also served as a stealth jobs program for Bush’s dogshit economy. The attacks were a convenient excuse for both.
Not letting the USA exploit the living shit out of the rest of the world actually would have unironically prevented 9/11 because then Osama Bin Laden wouldn’t have had a reason to hate the US for the economic terrorism that was so successful. He attacked the twin towers as the center of the US economic world for a reason.
I often wonder how Bin Laden would feel about our current own self-inflicted economic turmoil. Where Bin Laden failed, we managed to do to ourselves without any external pressure.
The economic and social fallout in the United States from 9/11 was the ultimate goal.
The terrorists won. Al Qaeda did what they set out to do, destabilize America like America has destabilized much of the world.
Tbf Bin Laden could easily have found a different reason to hate the US, or chosen a different target country. He did join the mujahedeen against the Sovjets/Russians first anyways
Maybe some of the current shit is long ripples after his terrorist attack. Americans still complain about the airport security being super invasive
The airport being invasive has almost nothing to do with the attacks, since it’s effectively all security theater.
That had more to do with giving companies certain senators had investments in sweetheart deals to roll out full body x-ray scanners. It also served as a stealth jobs program for Bush’s dogshit economy. The attacks were a convenient excuse for both.