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Moleman Voice: I was celebrating. (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 54 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

Bit of a Freudian slip lol. They are celebrating because it gave them everything they wanted. Inflated military budget and infinite surveillance state. The only cost was millions of lives, but who's counting?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 hours ago

    https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/09/11/how-9-11-enabled-a-preconceived-vision-of-an-imperial-us-foreign-policy/

    Predictably, the PNAC report also called for major annual increases in defense spending but noted ruefully that the money and political will needed to achieve “tomorrow’s military dominance” was likely to take a long time to muster “absent some catastrophic event — like a new Pearl Harbor.”

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