The Crazies

If the world is a conspiracy, then it is a remarkably unsuccessful conspiracy. So no, of course the attacks of 11th September 2001 were not an inside job, any more than Diana was murdered. Rather, those attacks chanced to save Bush's political life, and chanced to give his puppet-masters (whom his father, as a former Director of the CIA, had dubbed "The Crazies" and literally refused to have in the room) their chance of a lifetime to invade countries that they had long been eyeing up for that nefarious purpose, but which in fact had had nothing to do with those attacks.

Bush, meanwhile, committed one of his very few creditable acts and withdrew American troops from the country whence most of the attackers had hailed: Saudi Arabia. There has since been no further attack on the United States, not even after the invasion of Iraq. Bush did was what he is paid to do, and safeguarded the security of America and her people. Likewise, there has been no further attack on Spain since Spanish forces were withdrawn from Iraq. So much for a global jihad to restore the Caliphate. It seems oddly unconcerned with al-Andalus.

For those who believe in (not the same people as those who propagate the ideas of) such a jihad, or a "global terror network", or an "Axis of Evil", or al-Qaeda as anything more than a brand name adopted on websites and the like to express assent to an ideology, or Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, or an Iraqi connection to the New York and Washington bombings, are in fact on the same level as those who believe those bombings to have been an inside job, or that Diana was murdered, or that the Clintons were involved in a murder plot, or that the moon landings were faked. All alike, they are, as George Bush the Elder might put it, The Crazies.