Cheney, Harper and the Misuses of 9/11
Submitted on September 10, 2011
By Derrick O'Keefe - September 10, 2011
Rather than being ‘the day that changed everything’, as the cliché goes, 9/11 was more like the day when a disgusting crime provided a new pretext for existing reactionary trends. And so followed military occupations or interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and beyond, as well as torture at Guantanamo, Bagram and Abu Ghraib...War, torture, ‘extraordinary rendition’ – this is what defines their post-9/11 legacy.
