Here's my take on it.
There's a document online that was written by the Air Force in the mid 90's called "Gulliver's Travails". It's alternative history of the world up until the year 2025. In this history of the future, a terrorist attack on U.S. soil is used to swing the will of the people into going after asian / middle eastern oil fields.
Was our government behind 9/11? Likely. Do I have proof? No.
Have they used 9/11 to their advantage? Certainly.
Think for a moment of the president stating to a news conference, "My fellow Americans. I'd like to invade Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan to make sure they export their oil to us so our economy doesn't collapse."
Think anyone would go with that? I don't.
Going after oil doesn't sell. It smacks of corporations in bed with government and cronyism. A war against terrorism? That's much more agreeable to the American people who, back in 2002, were still mad with grief.
The military plan was simple:
1) Invade afghanistan.
2) Invade Iraq.
3) Consolidate both areas as people run to embrace their liberators.
4) Trump up some stuff about Iran / get Iran paranoid enough to do something stupid / claim Iran is funding terrorism.
5) Invade Iran from two sides. Again, liberate its people with democracy.
6) Control, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan through pupper governments and thus control the last of the low-hanging fruit of the oil tree.
Understand that oil is a limited resource that's tied to everything. The food you eat? It takes oil to produce pesticides, oil to grow & harvest it, oil to make sure it doesn't spoil, and oil to transport it. Same for everything else in your house.
Everything.
Imagine for a moment if the price of a gallon of gasoline went from $3.00 to $300.00 in less than 60 days. The economy would collapse. Chaos on a major scale.
So, there is an end to this war. The war will end when we run out of oil and the global economy collapses.
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