Reply #6: Consider the contradictions inherent in mhatrw's opinion. [View All]

It's a commonly used charge among the MIHOP brigade that it is "racist" to blame Arab terrorists for 911. This charge must stem from the belief that no one in the Arab world could possibly wish harm to the United States. Yet now we have a MIHOPer saying that, on the contrary, it's not "racist" to believe Arab terrorists did it, it's actually the product of misplaced "Cockburnian" Occidentalism. Meanwhile, we have the dismissive attitude of MIHOPers towards the hijackers, dismissing them as druggies with boxcutters who were incapable of outwitting the USA's defences, which sounds similar to the US exceptionalism we hear coming from the far right, and is an argument of equal worth to "sure, a handful of drunk guys dressed as Indians running around Boston harbour could never have outwitted the British Empire!".