I'm not going to try to debate this one with reason or logic.  People have pointed out that we aren't talking about a mosque located at the site of the WTC buildings, but that hasn't seemed to help.  Then I somehow was linked to an article on Humanevents.com, claiming that this Imam Rauf has said that the US is worse than Al-Queda.  I'm not saying Human Events has a conservative slant, but their banners seem to be just ads for Ann Coulter. People were pissed about the mosque, though.  I wept for my country.  Joe Rogan has a bit where he talks about CNN polls, laughing that if Americans were honest every poll would be 100% "I have no f*cking idea".  I'm not going to defend Iman Rauf.  John Stewart did a good job of that.  Instead, I'm just going to tell you about Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.  I'm a trained historian, and let me tell you that there is a chance that AQ did not exist before the 9/11 attacks.  I'm not saying we did it because I don't know, but there is a distinct possibility that AQ, 'the base' in Arabic, refers to a computer database containing the names of US and CIA assets in the Middle East like Osama bin Ladin and Ayman al-Zawahiri.  Let me remind you, this is ONLY a theory explained in the BBC documentary "The Power of Nightmares".  I am not sure if the theory is true.  But now let's talk about the Taliban.

Operation Cyclone was a CIA program approved by Presidents Carter and Reagan.  In 1979, Zbigniew and current Defense Sec. Robert Gates travelled to Afghanistan to ally themselves with Pashtun Drug dealers and certain outside "freedom-fighters" like Osama Bin Laden.  See my previous articles on Afghanistan for details.  Now, I'm not blaming the Liberal elites specifically: I'm pretty sure Kissinger and Rumsfeld were there at some point,  but the Neocons don't like to admit things to foreign Magazines like Le Nouvel Observateur.  Anyway Operation Cyclone aimed to force the Russians to invade Afghanistan in response to a US presence in the Middle East.  Years later, Brzezinski would write the Time magazine article naming Gates one of 2007's most influential people.  Isn't that nice.  According to the Wikipedia Article on Cyclone, Between 1979 and 1989 the US government gave over a billion dollars to "militant Islamic groups that were favored by neighboring Pakistan, rather than other, less ideological Afghan resistance groups that had also been fighting the Marxist-oriented Afghan regime since before the Soviet intervention."

Let that sink in for a second.  Yes, the wars are a sham. Yes, millions have died for nothing.  Yes, the United States created the precursors to the Taliban and indirectly caused the 9/11 attacks.  Yes, everything you know and believe is a lie.   But it's not your fault.  I mean, think for a second.  With the media, internet, and social networking the world has the potential for more connective discussion than at any point in human history.  It would take a massive conspiracy of silence to keep this information from reaching the American people.  Just saying.