There have already been 104 homicides in Baltimore this year, 47 more than at the same time last year, with the victims almost exclusively black. How can this be? There is not a single Confederate flag flying over ANY government building anywhere in the state of Maryland — or in nearby D.C.; Robert E. Lee Park is being renamed; and Lee’s statue has been vandalized. Logic suggests that this simply should not happen. Everyone knows that the main cause of black homicides is white people who are whipped up into a murderous frenzy upon viewing a Confederate flag.
In 2001, attacks in New York and Washington are blamed on Al Qaeda as a pretext for invading Afghanistan. In the months leading up to the event, American negotiators had warned Afghanistan’s Taliban that they were interested in securing right of way for proposed pipeline projects, and the US would achieve this with either a carpet of gold or a carpet of bombs. The Bush administration’s first major national security directive, NSPD-9, a full-scale battle plan for the invasion of Afghanistan, including command and control, air and ground forces, and logistics, was drafted and sitting on the President’s desk to be signed off on September 4, 2001, seven days before the 9/11 attacks. The invasion proceeded as planned in October.
