Alexander Cockburn at Counterpunch gets it right this morning:

One characteristic of the nuts is that they have a devout, albeit preposterous belief in American efficiency, thus many of them start with the racist premise that “Arabs in caves” weren’t capable of the mission. They believe that military systems work the way Pentagon press flacks and aerospace salesmen say they should work.

Those peddling the view that the attacks of September 11 were an “inside job” are selling the idea of an omniscient government, one that controls all and is capable of everything. They also have a strange faith in technology — that it simply cannot fail in strange and unpredictable ways. Not to mention the belief that nothing happens by accident, and that everything is somehow planned in advance.

This is not to say there aren’t those who don’t want to run the world — Murray Rothbard’s 110-year-old Rockefeller World Empire is a very good example of a fairly open “conspiracy” of world controllers and world managers — but wanting to run the world, and actually running it, are two entirely different things. The world’s an awfully difficult place to run.

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