The Real Causers of 9/11 Have Names Like "Kissinger"

"Realism" is an arbitrary standard in application. In practice it turns out to be nihilism, so it is only a nicer term for the law of the jungle. Applied to American foreign policy, other countries and peoples are treated as means to our ends, not entities with inborn rights and deserving of respect. 

They are devalued. Is it a wonder they hate us? Individuals, like Henry Kissinger, who are drawn to this are the measure of all things to themselves. They see their own psychology of anger, aggression and insecurity in the world around them and so must always be able to out-gun everyone else.

If it sounds familiar there's a domestic, NRA version of this. All the 9/11 guys did was to accept the battle on our terms, which assume an ethical vacuum. We shouldn't complain. We have been playing cynical, power politics in the Middle East forever, resulting in chaos there and many deaths.

There were a lot of innocent victims of 9/11 but, as a country, we asked for it. The war-hawks have declared open-season on America, I hope inadvertently, but it is sick stuff anyway. We can add to the list of innocents all the noncombatants killed by us since then in Iraq and elsewhere.

Not that the Neoconistas care. They have reinvented themselves in other roles, typically with no loss of prestige for being deadly wrong. It's a simpler world when you don't care, and that includes about our own dead, and when there are no consequences no matter how badly you fail.