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Old 23-May-2006, 11:26 PM
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In what universe is this a more likely scenario...

I think you know the answer. Missiles and bombs are contemplated not because doing such a thing would make sense, but because there is the urgent desire to see things like bombs, missiles, undercover agents, and paid disinformationists as part of the scenario.

These various "truth" movements have one thing in common: they concentrate on what didn't happen, not on discovering what did happen. They don't provide a plausible alternative scenario because there isn't one. They have only a rapidly diverging field of speculation. Any organization whose central tenet is, "Well, I don't know what really happened, but I can sure tell you what didn't happen," (i.e., one that predicates itself on the inexorable rejection of a certain viewpoint rather than the conditional acceptance of some other specific viewpoint) will never be able to reach any conclusion or consensus. They serve only to amplify meaningless doubt and attract attention to themselves.
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