I think its tiny and its been blown out of proportion. I go with the theory that the governments of the western world want us to live in fear of the "enemy", whoever it may be in that era. Particularly for americans, who have lived in fear of cuba, the commies and the japs (as the older generation so lovingly refer to them). Pearl harbour was thought up by the american gov. to help boost their economy by going to war, and so too was the world trade center attack (i hate referring to it as 9/11 or september 11, too cliched for such an atrocity).
war is good for the economy, it wins elections, and it generally involves attacking countries far weaker than them. Hitler started the world wars to help bring Germany out of financial collapse. It provided jobs in munitions factories, in the army, in foreign countries where they would try to make people more "german", and it was only when the silly bugger tried to invade England (my green and pleasant land) that he fucked up. but it sure did good things for churchill and our economy.
we will always live in so-called fear fed to us by governments, but who fucking cares. i for one am not gonna stop getting out of bed in the morning just because some guy with a beard and an ak-47 in a hollywood studio pretends he's going to wipe out the infidel, calling himself osama.
its as much bullshit as the moon landing. end of.
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