Nine Years and Nothing Learnt

“Indeed, on this grim ninth anniversary—and heaven spare us next year from the 10th—9/11 appears to have produced not peace or justice or democracy or human rights, but monsters. They have prowled Iraq – both the Western and the local variety—and slaughtered 100,000 souls, or 500,000, or a million; and who cares? … This is the loss, of course. But who’s made the profit? Well, the arms dealers, naturally, and Boeing and Lockheed Martin and all the missile lads and the drone manufacturers and F-16 spare parts outfits and the ruthless mercenaries who stalk the Muslim lands on our behalf now that we have created 100,000 more enemies for each of the 19 murderers of 9/11.”