OP ED wrote:Jeff wrote:OP ED wrote:Let me put it this way: "19 Arab Radicals in Caves" do NOT possess the ability to carry out the attack [even the official story] without significant foreign intelligence aid.
Call that racist, I call it reality.
"Arab radicals in caves" = no google hits. "Arabs in caves" over 5,000. Scoffing at the caricature of Arab troglodytes, yes, that is racist.
You know these guys weren't living in caves. They were cultured and Westernized. Connected. Going there is dangerous to the covert players. Saying they were "Arabs in caves" divorces them from the operational structure, and saves the operation.
The part you placed it bold is my point. That even in the cover story we're talking about folks with training/connections/ties/financing from inside the beast, not outside. That "the arabs in caves" is the myth is obvious, but that calling it such can be decried as racism shows the subtlty of the cover-story in its ability to divert conversation into sand traps.
I tend to see the entire semantics area of this as a gigantic, well-designed trap to divert attention. That there are REAL elements of ACTUAL racism involved in SOME places, is most certainly true, but I'd expect it to be very rare in the mainstream CT crowd, mainly because exposure of high-level control mechanisms often convinces people that racism is part of their strategy and not a pathway to truth.
Also, the word "radical" on my part was just my misquoting. I think term 'radical' is also misleading. I was a kid in the eighties and nineties, the ninja turtles are also "radical".
When I use the word "arab" I'll try to be careful not to hurt anyone's feelings. I tend to use it as a term to indicate the "official" account's goal of radicalizing/demonizing [polarizing opinions] about Aram Muslims in general. If this is misunderstood, I apologize for not being more clear.
I just wanted to make what's implicit wrt the arabs-in-caves meme under discussion here explicit.
In too many places, that Arabs are living in extreme poverty, without water and electricity (and possibly literally in caves) is a socioeconomic reality. That reality has to be acknowledged in order constructively to address the poverty. But the imaging and branding campaign that inexorably links the phrase "arabs in caves" to "an ethnicity that is inherently primitive" has made it impossible to acknowledge in simple, declarative terms, which are the only terms most people comprehend or remember. By the time you're finished with whatever counter-racist corrective preface the meme makes necessary and started in on the poverty, most of the world will have changed the channel.
So it's a conversation-stopper. And, functionally, a thought-stopper.
Re-imaging and re-branding are long overdue, obviously. Because there will never be very many people willing to follow the bouncing ball as it takes them from the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the present-day socioeconomic and cultural realities of the individual modern Arab states. The only way to fight dishonest imaging and branding is with honest imaging and branding.
But the left sucks at that stuff and always has, pretty much since the fall of the Ottoman Empire. The Wobblies were doing an excellent job in the i & b department, approximately a decade before that. But that only lasted for about ten minutes, and its legacy is not widely known beyond the realm of folk music.
My point is that it's a meme with a larger obstructionist purpose than halting the 9-11 truth movement. And you need to know that, if you want to put a stake in its heart.
