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Entry: There Is a Season Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/there_is_a_season#4850 Post contents: I, for one, do not believe that 9/11 really changed much of anything. What it did really show us is that failing to have a sane immigration policy and the effective control of a nation's borders is suicidal. In reality, the interventionists are those people deluded enough to think that having two oceans separating this country from those we are bombing and occupying is enough to shield the homeland from any bad repercussions. Yes, the interventionists are the real isolationists. Actions do indeed have consequences, and being a world class bully is only going to encourage those bullied into figuring out how to effectively fight back. Looking carefully at the events of 9/11 what we see is a bunch of low tech illegal immigrants effectively using air power against the financial and military assets of the American Empire. Had that third airliner not been shot down over Pennsylvania, a major political asset would also have been hit. The strengths of the Empire were effectively used against it. In a strange sense, the World Trade Center destruction reminds me of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. In both cases, a massive defeat, following on acts of hubris is twisted and spun into a sort of victory. The blowback effects of imperial attacks on other countries, and the incredible incompetence of NORAD in the face of a novel air assault are all ignored as those buildings collapsed into rubble. Sent at: 2008 12 02