I’ve just watched 9/11: The Conspiracy Files on BBC 2 and have finally understood why the official story is true and why nevertheless conspiracy theories thrive.

The fact of the matter, it seems, is that a nation that has an incompetent air defence command (NORAD) incapable for several days of each year of telling the difference between an exercise and a real attack, has intelligence agencies that don’t communicate crucial information to each other and in any case couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery, constructs buildings that are as resistant to fire damage as a can of paraffin, and has an air traffic control that can’t tell a United Airlines flight from a Delta airlines flight, would certainly never have had the wit to mount a conspiracy, let alone defend the country from four amateur pilots and their buddies under the direction of a sickly man in a cave in Afghanistan.

So much for debunking the conspiracy theories.

So why do such theories persist? Quite frankly, would you as a US citizen feel more secure knowing that your government is so all-powerful that it could get away with a conspiracy on this scale, or instead knowing that your government and its agencies are so incompetent that they are incapable of protecting you from a mere 19 Arabs who–though in many cases al-Qa’ida suspects–seem to have entered and lived in the US without hindrance, hijacked four airliners with nothing more persuasive than box cutters, brought devastation to the financial capital of the world, while nearly six years on the mastermind of the operation is still at liberty to sip his mint tea and give you the one-finger salute? I know which would worry me the more.

Case closed, I think.

Reference

9/11: The Conspiracy Files, BBC2, 18th February 2007.
» http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/conspiracy_files/6160775.stm
‘Debunking the BBC’s 9-11 Conspiracy Files’
» http://debunking-bbc.blogspot.com/2007/02/debunking-bbcs-9-11-conspiracy-files.html

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