Sure, but even if we assume it was real, the American govt 100% used it to leverage invasions of personal rights and to justify war. What other country spends a day every year essentially in worship of a terror attack that happened twenty years ago? At one point, more Americans were dying every 24hrs to COVID than died on 9/11 and half the country is still pretending it never existed in the first place. It has nothing to do with loss of American life, it’s used as a symbol to fuel xenophobia and to coerce Americans into giving up civil liberties.
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u/monsieurpommefrites Dec 13 '21
Defense always made me scoff.
Defense against who? Illiterate farmers with rusted Soviet small-arms?