{"id":931,"date":"2019-03-09T00:32:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T00:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsm.prolerat.org\/?page_id=931"},"modified":"2019-10-21T00:51:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T23:51:19","slug":"terrorist-attacks-in-u-s-a","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/terrorist-attacks-in-u-s-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorist Attacks in U.S.A."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
September 12th 2001, U.K.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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\nThe attacks on the US leave many questions unresolved. What will the \nfinal death toll be? Who carried out the attack and what will be the US \nresponse? Why was the attack carried out? Any answers at the moment are \npurely speculative.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nOsama bin Laden is widely believed to be behind the terror attacks. He \nis a billionaire Islamic fundamentalist, former US  ally and prot\u00e9g\u00e9, \nwho fronts a terrorist organisation whose fighters were trained and \nfinanced by the CIA during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. \nFollowing the car bomb attack at the World Trade Centre eight years ago,\n four of those arrested and charged with the attack were found to be \namongst those trained by the US  (Robert Fox, New York\u2019s regional FBI \ndirector revealed this in a TV interview in 1993). When the US attacked \nbin Laden\u2019s bases near the village of Khost in Afghanistan (along with \nthe Sudanese pharmaceutical factory) following attacks on US embassies \nin Africa, they could do so with pinpoint accuracy for the CIA had \nplanned and designed them.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThe US is now reaping the bitter harvest of its foreign policy which \nused Islamic fundamentalism as a puppet in its perennial game of \nglobo-political-profit making. For years it courted some of the most \ndangerous, conservative and fanatical followers of Islam and is now \npaying the price.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nWhilst the world is outraged at the terrorist attacks on the USA \nmainland, it must be remembered that the USA has been conducting just as\n deadly covert acts of terrorism around the globe for 50 years (ie their\n support for  Suharto\u2019s military coup in 1966 which resulted in the \ndeaths of 600,000 members of the PKI and their more recent support for \nan Indonesian regime that massacred thousands who voted for independence\n in East Timor). In this same period the US has toppled some 30 \ngovernments and supported every dictator imaginable (Pol Pot, Mobuto, \nAmin, Papa Doc Duvalier and Saddam Hussein) whilst seriously interfering\n in the domestic affairs of almost 70 countries. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nIn recent years the US has  devastated Iraq in continuous bombing raids \u2013\n even for using radar to scan the Iraqi airspace  its own air force is \nexcluded from, imposed sanctions on Iraq that have resulted in the \ndeaths of perhaps 2 million people, bombed Iraq in defence of the Kurds \nfrom the same air bases Turkey uses to bomb Kurdish villages. In the \nwake of the Iraqi defeat during the Gulf War, the US attacked a \nretreating Iraqi army on the Basra road and fried to death 60,000 \nill-equipped  soldiers, the vast majority never wanting any part in the \nconflict in the first place. The US  has launched  attacks upon Libya, \nSomalia and Grenada and supported  right wing tendencies in Panama, \nHaiti, El Salvador and Colombia whilst at the  same time ensuring there \nis no Middle Eastern solution, that the Palestinian people are kept in a\n state of subjection and that UN Resolutions pertaining to the occupied \nterritories are ignored. During the retaliatory raids following the \nattacks on the US embassies in Africa, the US fired 20 cruse missiles \ninto Afghanistan and killed tens of thousands in Sudan (a true figure is\n not available because the US blocked an inquiry). The list is indeed a \nlong one.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThose lying dead beneath the rubble are our fellow workers, members of \nthe working class Whilst we are revolted and gasp in disbelief at the \ndeaths of perhaps 25,000 workers in the biggest terrorist attack in \nhistory, is it not also an alarming atrocity that 40,000 children die of\n starvation each day? Do we consider it a most heinous crime when 1,000 \nchildren die each hour of preventable disease (these are UNICEF \nstatistics) and do we not find sickening the thought that twice that \nnumber of women die or suffer disability during pregnancy because of a \nlack of simple remedies or medical attention? We are speaking here of an\n Hiroshima a  day which never gets reported, which is taken as accepted \nbecause it is so much a part of our way of life in capitalist society. \nWhere is the 25-page pull out that accompanies the recent WHO revelation\n that more people died of starvation  in the last two years than were \nkilled in two world wars?\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nIt is also worth pausing and remembering that the US, Britain, France, \nChina and the Soviet Union have between them thousands of nuclear \nweapons capable of destroying the planet a hundred times over. Any one \nof these warheads is indeed capable of creating death and destruction on\n a scale that would make the attack in question look like a playground \nfirecracker.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nWestern leaders have claimed the attack to be an assault on \ncivilisation. But what is this civilisation that has been attacked, \nwhere 600 million have no home, where 800 million are chronically \nmalnourished, where 1 billion have no access to clean water? What is \nthis civilisation where 3 individuals have more wealth than the combined\n income of the word\u2019s 48 poorest nations? How can we condemn attacks on \nour \u2018civilisation\u2019 when we destroy food to keep prices high and employ \nscientists on weapons programmes whilst children die of preventable \ndisease? What questions we can ask of those who destroy the lives of \nmillions, then run for the moral highground when disaster hits their own\n backyard \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThe entire episode serves to show the insanity of the system we live in,\n and the desperate need to wrest control of our planet away from the \nmadmen before it is indeed to late. In the 20th century, some 220 \nmillion lost their lives in wars, in conflicts over trade routes, areas \nof influence, foreign markets, mineral wealth and the strategic points \nfrom which the same can be defended or in other words, in the name of \nprofit. The globalisation process, which the US pursued obsessively, \nonly served to make political Islam more reactionary in defence of its \nown culture and strategic interests.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThe solution remains the same. There is one world and we exist as one \npeople in need of each other and with the same basic needs. There is far\n more that unites us than can ever divide us along cultural, \nnationalistic or religious lines. Together we can create a civilisation \nworth living in, but before that happens we need the conscious \ncooperation of ordinary people across the world, united in one common \ncause \u2013 to create a world in which each person has free access to the \nbenefits of civilisation, a world without borders or frontiers, social \nclasses or leaders and a world in which production is at last freed from\n the artificial constraints of profit and used for the good of humanity \u2013\n socialism.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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For more information on U.S. Foreign Policy see our International Politics<\/a> section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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