America’s War on Terror is little more than a War on Reason as we are expected to ignore the facts and believe the story. In fact, if one asks questions or makes the most reasonable conclusion of the evidence at hand the are quickly labeled a kook, conspiracist, or an antisemite.
The term ignorance literally means to ignore. To be ignorant doesn’t mean an inability to think or reason, but rather a choice to ignore what is apparent and understandable. Identifying ignorance is not a judgment of one’s inability to think, not a statement of stupidity, but rather an indictment that a person is ignoring facts and evidence.
In the War on Terrorism we are often asked to be and remain ignorant by our media and government. First we are asked to believe that a man in the mountains of Afghanistan pulled off the most ghastly successful terrorist event in history. We, are told that we know he did this because we were monitoring all his communications and movements for years. Asking how a fully monitored man could pull off such a devious feat from half way across the globe with very limited technology is not allowed in the war on reason.
Second, we are asked to believe that a group of inexperienced fliers could execute such difficult and skilled maneuvering of commercial aircraft. Third, we are asked to believe that our highly skilled and practiced military air defense system failed to react for some 40 minutes or so and then could not intercept the planes.
Also we are expected to believe that skyscrapers designed to withstand the impact of several aircraft fell from the impact and resulting fires from one commercial airliner. Not only did the two towers fall due to these prepared for circumstances, but a third skyscraper fell due to fires caused by debris from the two towers. These were not the first skyscrapers to burn, but they were the first to come down due to fire.
All three skyscrapers fell in almost textbook demolition style. The science of bringing down buildings was formed due to the fact that building do not fall in this fashion on their own. The odds of three buildings all falling in this manner without scientific assistance is beyond astronomical. Add to this the fact that the three buildings all fell at a few tenths of a second off of the speed of gravity and you are left with a very unreasonable explanation. How could buildings supposedly pancaking their way down free fall at gravitational speed? But such questions aren’t allowed in the war on reason.
This event which took place well over seven years ago drammatically changed our view of the world and officially began the War on Terrorism. Since then no successul terrorist events have occured on US soil. We are led to believe that the same people who allowed a heavily monitored known terrorist and some suspected terrorists who were taking pilot lessons in the US to hijack planes and fly half way around the country to attack a known target are now preventing any further terrorists event by a people maniacally dedicated towards harming us. Even though every single day hundreds of people, tons of weapons, and illegal contraban cross our borders not one single terrorist event has occured. This is the stuff of the war on reason.
The war on reason is on full display in the way we are asked to view the conflict between Palestine and Israel. We are led to believe that Hamas is a terrorist organization. The fact that they are the democratically elected representatives of the nation of Palestine is never mentioned. We are told that the military of Hamas hides amongst the populace. Yet, many journalists from around the globe report that the miltants of Hamas dress in miltary uniform and usually leave the urban ares to fight the Isaelis in the open.
The Palestinians are an imprisoned people who are not allowed to get weapons let alone defend themselves with a standing army. Yet, we are told that the incursions and killing of Palestinians will continue until they cease the smuggling of weapons and the firing of rockets into Israel. The majority of arms the Palestinians have are not even capable of penetrating the body armor of the Israeli soldiers. They are defenseless against the Israeli air force and this helps explain why over 100 Palestinians are killed for every Israeli.
Though American TV is fond of showing footage of Palestinian rocket fire, the truth of the matter is that these home made rockets have up to the last report I read last week not killed a single Israeli.
Can you imagine the outrage that would be a result of some nation bombing our urban areas in an attempt to kill a few isolated leaders of a group the bombing nation labeled as terrorists? Well, that is exactly what the Israelis are doing in their supposed attempt at killing Hamas leaders. Reports out of Pakistan have the US bombing urban areas in Pakistan in our attempt to kill “known terrorists”.
I’m not trying to pick sides here. I’m just pointing out how the available facts and evidence do not support the official stories and actions on the war on terrorism. We are being asked to remain ignorant and in so doing we are being asked to be blind and reactionary.
Why are we being asked to be this way? That is the question.
Jim Guido