Comments on: Remembering 9/11 and its Aftermath http://www.spainexchange.com/closerlook/remembering-911-and-its-aftermath/ Your Window to the World Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:27:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Anindita Sengupta http://www.spainexchange.com/closerlook/remembering-911-and-its-aftermath/#comment-81 Anindita Sengupta Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:26:13 +0000 http://www.spainexchange.com/closerlook/remembering-911-and-its-aftermath/#comment-81 @RF The purpose of this blog is to provide information as well as offer personal opinion. On the eve of 9/11, I was interested to see what people were talking about and that is what I pointed to. Perhaps, I should have made it clearer that I did not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed in these articles. Thanks to you I have posted a disclaimer. However, while it is important to argue with foolishness, it is also important to not ignore it. One can sweep views under the carpet and move in rarefied circles and forget that there are others out there. Doesn't make them disappear. The fact that the article appeared on Counter Currents is also interesting because the website often carries other sensible "humanist" articles. The purpose of this blog is to highlight different aspects precisely so that people know and talk about just as you did. I didn't expect to be made accountable for other people's views though. Perhaps, the site needs a general disclaimer. @RF
The purpose of this blog is to provide information as well as offer personal opinion. On the eve of 9/11, I was interested to see what people were talking about and that is what I pointed to. Perhaps, I should have made it clearer that I did not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed in these articles. Thanks to you I have posted a disclaimer.

However, while it is important to argue with foolishness, it is also important to not ignore it. One can sweep views under the carpet and move in rarefied circles and forget that there are others out there. Doesn’t make them disappear. The fact that the article appeared on Counter Currents is also interesting because the website often carries other sensible “humanist” articles. The purpose of this blog is to highlight different aspects precisely so that people know and talk about just as you did. I didn’t expect to be made accountable for other people’s views though. Perhaps, the site needs a general disclaimer.

]]> By: Aditya http://www.spainexchange.com/closerlook/remembering-911-and-its-aftermath/#comment-80 Aditya Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:09:07 +0000 http://www.spainexchange.com/closerlook/remembering-911-and-its-aftermath/#comment-80 Rational Fool: I agree that the CounterCurrent article seems extra - conspiracy theorist and tends to imply that the US government was involved (in some way) in the loss of thousands of innocent lives. However, I don't believe that Anindita was in any way supporting that argument. Rather, she was just referring to information currently available on the net. Having said that, perhaps she could be more clear in defining that this article (and line of thought) may be factually incorrect. Rational Fool: I agree that the CounterCurrent article seems extra - conspiracy theorist and tends to imply that the US government was involved (in some way) in the loss of thousands of innocent lives. However, I don’t believe that Anindita was in any way supporting that argument. Rather, she was just referring to information currently available on the net. Having said that, perhaps she could be more clear in defining that this article (and line of thought) may be factually incorrect.

]]> By: The Rational Fool http://www.spainexchange.com/closerlook/remembering-911-and-its-aftermath/#comment-79 The Rational Fool Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:01:03 +0000 http://www.spainexchange.com/closerlook/remembering-911-and-its-aftermath/#comment-79 I hesitated, too, before writing this comment. Then, I went back and reread your other post. I bothered to comment (even though I wanted not to) <i>because silence is not the answer</i>. Because when people are loudly, aggressively speaking foolishness, giving them exposure through links and quotes is not always the best solution. Because lies must be trashed. Because I hoped that no one, including you, will not easily give any credibility to such lies next time s/he writes on such unspeakable horrors (and yes dammit, they were unspeakable horrors). I apologize for plagiarizing some of your words. I hesitated, too, before writing this comment. Then, I went back and reread your other post.
I bothered to comment (even though I wanted not to) because silence is not the answer. Because when people are loudly, aggressively speaking foolishness, giving them exposure through links and quotes is not always the best solution. Because lies must be trashed. Because I hoped that no one, including you, will not easily give any credibility to such lies next time s/he writes on such unspeakable horrors (and yes dammit, they were unspeakable horrors).

I apologize for plagiarizing some of your words.

]]> By: Anindita Sengupta http://www.spainexchange.com/closerlook/remembering-911-and-its-aftermath/#comment-78 Anindita Sengupta Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:45:16 +0000 http://www.spainexchange.com/closerlook/remembering-911-and-its-aftermath/#comment-78 @RF That was not my contention. In this blog, I usually provide links to different articles / aspects of an event and that is what I have done. On the eve of 9/11, these are some of the discussions that were happening on the Internet. I have provided information as is amply clear by the fact that I have not commented on any of the articles I have linked to. I don't see how this constitutes hypocrisy or amounts to a contention of any sort. To answer your specific questions: That we deserved 9/11, because of what was to happen in Iraq, two years later? Certainly not. I have said that the incident "ostensibly led" to the War on Terror. I don't see how this means that you "deserved" 9/11. It's like saying the Babri Masjid incident was terrible and it led to the riots, which were also and perhaps even more terrible. Or is it that the U.S. government deliberately plotted 9/11, so they could invade Iraq? Or is it that the Russian government acted in such a manner to invite Islamic terrorists to mow down 300+ kindergartners? I have pointed to articles. It doesn't mean I concur with those opinions. I did debate whether I should post such controversial links but the spirit of this blog is to look at what different people are saying and not push my own agenda or opinions. @RF
That was not my contention. In this blog, I usually provide links to different articles / aspects of an event and that is what I have done. On the eve of 9/11, these are some of the discussions that were happening on the Internet. I have provided information as is amply clear by the fact that I have not commented on any of the articles I have linked to. I don’t see how this constitutes hypocrisy or amounts to a contention of any sort.

To answer your specific questions: That we deserved 9/11, because of what was to happen in Iraq, two years later? Certainly not. I have said that the incident “ostensibly led” to the War on Terror. I don’t see how this means that you “deserved” 9/11. It’s like saying the Babri Masjid incident was terrible and it led to the riots, which were also and perhaps even more terrible.

Or is it that the U.S. government deliberately plotted 9/11, so they could invade Iraq? Or is it that the Russian government acted in such a manner to invite Islamic terrorists to mow down 300+ kindergartners? I have pointed to articles. It doesn’t mean I concur with those opinions. I did debate whether I should post such controversial links but the spirit of this blog is to look at what different people are saying and not push my own agenda or opinions.

]]> By: The Rational Fool http://www.spainexchange.com/closerlook/remembering-911-and-its-aftermath/#comment-77 The Rational Fool Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:30:18 +0000 http://www.spainexchange.com/closerlook/remembering-911-and-its-aftermath/#comment-77 I am surprised that you have written this after your post, <a href="http://aninditasengupta.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/a-day-in-the-life-of/" rel="nofollow">A day in the life of…</a> in your other blog, Noah's Ark Broken. What is your contention? That we deserved 9/11, because of what was to happen in Iraq, two years later? Or is it that the U.S. government deliberately plotted 9/11, so they could invade Iraq? Or is it that the Russian government acted in such a manner to invite Islamic terrorists to mow down 300+ kindergartners? How is this any different from your acquaintance casting aspersions on your behavior, for all the sexual harassment that you suffered from your boss ? I am sorry, but adding a couple of sympathetic lines at the end does not absolve you of the hypocrisy demonstrated in the rest of the post :( I am surprised that you have written this after your post, A day in the life of… in your other blog, Noah’s Ark Broken.

What is your contention? That we deserved 9/11, because of what was to happen in Iraq, two years later? Or is it that the U.S. government deliberately plotted 9/11, so they could invade Iraq? Or is it that the Russian government acted in such a manner to invite Islamic terrorists to mow down 300+ kindergartners? How is this any different from your acquaintance casting aspersions on your behavior, for all the sexual harassment that you suffered from your boss ?

I am sorry, but adding a couple of sympathetic lines at the end does not absolve you of the hypocrisy demonstrated in the rest of the post :(

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