No... Stundie you haven't actually addressed the issue of - were the government complicit because there never were any hijackers, or were they complicit because they ignored the warnings about the actual hijackers?
Linking the careers of two people who would never have met nor agreed with each others' viewpoints (correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Strauss Jewish?) is "argument by baseless smear and innuendo". And I don't even have to look at the video to see that! I think we can safely say that Al Qutb wasn't a neocon!
Big business does well out of war. Big whup. Now provide the proof that 9/11 was caused by the Iraq war instead of the other way round. Demonstrate that Zbigniew Brzezinski promoted the idea of committing the biggest mass murder ever as a good excuse for going to war. Saying "Everything's peaceful and we're not really looking to interfere in the world again, barring another Pearl Harbor", doesn't really cut it. Seriously, the worst thing you can accuse the neocons of on the day of 9/11 was rubbing their hands with glee that their longed-for opportunity had arrived.
But to get back to my first point - either there never were hijackers, or the government didn't do anything about the hijackers. Seems to me the only people who didn't know about these 20 hijackers (including the sacked Moussaoui) were the United States Government!
Again...You would not make the link because you have EDUCATED yourself.....
The war on terror is a war between Neoconservatives and Islam. Islamists and the Neocons are, in reality, soul mates!
They both believe that the problem with modern society is that individuals who question anything have already torn down God, that eventually they will tear down everything else and therefore they will have to be opposed.
The Egyptian literary critic (Considered to be the founder of Islamic Fundamentalism) Sayyid Qutb attended graduate school in Greeley, Colorado in 1949.
It was Qutb's encounter with the United States that helped turn him into the Lenin of the radical Islamists. One summer night, the puritanical Qutb went to a dance at a local church hall. The idea that a house of worship playing a secular love song crystallized Qutb's sense that Americans were deeply corrupt and interested only in invidualism and self-gratification.
On his return to Egypt, Qutb joined the Muslim Brotherhood and was arrested on Gamal Abdel Nasser orders in 1954 for supposedly plotting a revolution. Qutb was then subjected to the most dreadful tortures which he survived, but the torture had a powerful, radicalizing effect on his ideas. Qutb argued that Egypt's secular nationalist government was presiding over a country mired in a state of pre-Islamic barbarity known as jahiliyyah and that the government should be overthrown.
Qutb was executed in 1966, but he would profoundly influence a teenager named Ayman al-Zawahiri, (Osama Bin Ladens Mentor)who set up a jihadist cell dedicated to the Qutbian theory that Egyptian government officials were apostates from Islam and therefore deserved death.
Political philosopher Leo Strauss who shared the same fears about the destructive influence of individualism in America as Qutb, was telling his students, many of whom went on to influential careers in politics, (Wolfowitz/Rumsfeld) that liberalism was fatally weakening the US body politic and sapping Americans will to defend "freedom." Intellectuals, he believed, would have to spread an ideology of good and evil, whether they believed it or not, so that the American people could be mobilized against the enemies of freedom.
The ancient philosophers whom Strauss most cherished believed that the unwashed masses were not fit for either truth or liberty, and that giving them these sublime treasures would be like throwing pearls before swine.
A fundamental belief of Strauss has to do with their insistence on the need for secrecy and the necessity of lies. Strauss argues that the wise must conceal their views for two reasons. To spare the peoples feelings and to protect the elite from possible reprisals.
The effect of his teaching is to convince his acolytes that they are the natural ruling elite and the persecuted few. It does not take much intelligence for them to surmise that they are in a situation of great danger, especially in a world devoted to the modern ideas of equal rights and freedoms.
Strauss was not as hostile to democracy as he was to liberalism. This is because he recognises that the vulgar masses have numbers on their side, and the sheer power of numbers cannot be completely ignored.
WHATEVER can be done to bring the masses along is legitimate. If you can use democracy to turn the masses against their own liberty, this is a great triumph. It is the sort of tactic that neo-conservatives use consistently, and in some cases very successfully.
Neoconservatives in the American foreign policy establishment have vastly exaggerated those threats in their quest to remake the world in the image of the United States. Neoconservatives were willing to look past the flaws of anyone willing to confront America's enemy such as the fanatical Islamist Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, whose party received at least $600 million in US aid to fight the Soviets in the 1980s.
After the cold war and the collapse of Russia and communism. The Neo-cons needed a new enemey. They believed that by having a common enemy, they would unite Americans together and if they became scared of that threat, then the people would rely on the goverment to protect them, so much so that they would give up there liberties in order for security and safety.
I could go on....but watch the documentary before you judge and the evidence it presents.