The World Did Not Begin on 9/11
May 2, 2011
Watch out, we are told, there may be some terrorist attacks to avenge the killing of bin Laden. Terrorists may retaliate against us for what we did. What people are forgetting is that 9/11 was in retaliation for decades of U.S. intervention in the Middle East, and especially beginning with the First Gulf war in 1991 and followed by events in Iraq throughout the 1990s.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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