Right blames 911 on leftist professors...

[Viking12]

Robert Conquest is one of the right’s most senior and respected figures, a fellow of the Hoover Institute, and a key player in the Anglo-American right’s intellectual network. His new book, The Dragons of Expectation claims,

“And we are told that a number of members of the Middle Eastern terror groups had originally been in the local communist movements … The members of , as with those in Italy or, for example, the Naxalites in India, were almost entirely recruited from student elements who had accepted the abstractions of fashionable academics. And the September 11 bombers were almost all comfortably off young men, some having been to Western universities and there adopted the extremely anti-Western mind-set.”


http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/003186.html

Conquests claims are getting support from right-wing bloggers around the sphere.

For example, extending 911 blame on "leftist professors" to Rachel Corries tragic death, second-rate economics Professor King Banein states,

"I'm sure someone will now think I blame in part leftist professors for sending her (Rachel Corrie) to her death. Let me be explicit: I do."

http://haloscan.com/tb/scsuscholars/110736277252271667

[Colorado Blue]

1. Oh for HEAVEN'S SAKE. n/t

[noahmijo]

2. Was it leftist professors that did business with Islamic radicals like....

say Republican oil moguls such as Marty Miller who invited the fucking Taliban ministry to his Houston home?

No motherfucker I blame REPUBLICAN BITCHES LIKE YOU YOUR ILK right from the Reagan years when RIGHT WING ZEALOTS like then director of the CIA William Casey, A RIGHT WING NEO CON BASTARD who thought it would be a great idea to arm the Mujahadeen against the "atheist" communists because although they were Islamic radicals, we had something in common with them right??

Also NO WAR FOR MONICA!!! sound familiar asshole? Oh yea and wasn't it Pakistan who when Clinton was elected, their officials were upset knowing that their golden years of top notch service from their Republican slaves were now over?...yep hard pill to swallow huh you redneck bastards who claim to be the champions of fighting "terra"

Also say what you will, ignore it all you want, YOU FUCKING PRESIDENT has MAJOR ties with the Saudi Royal Family AND YOU CANNOT DISPUTE THIS NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU SCREAM THAT MOORE IS A LIAR! MOORE BARELY EVEN SCRATCHES THE SURFACE AND YOU'RE TOO DUMB AND IGNORANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS!!

Why did Bush allow the Visa Express program to take place for Saudi Nationals????

So to the right YOU ARE TO BLAME FOR 9/11 FOR BEING WEAK ON TERROR AND FOR GIVING THE KEYS TO THE ANIMALS WHO HIJACKED THOSE PLANES!

[shaolinmonkey]

5. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

Hard-line theocrats emerged from far-left godless communists. What a stupid fuckhead this guy is.

[MisterP]

7. are our avatars the dragons of expectation?

:o

[shaolinmonkey]

8. I don't know...

but my karate instructor goes by "Mister P". Weird.

[maxsolomon]

3. his name is CONQUEST?

nice. i assume that, like most conservatives, he does not understand the concept of IRONY.

everyone from a fake-ass conservative drivel-churning "institute" (discovery, cato, especially the HOOVER, as in J. Edgar, and the rand corporation) should STFU.

[Old and In the Way]

4. Any comments about why this administration disregarded the

Hart-Rudman Commission findings on making this country more secure from terrorism or why Bush ignored the repeated warnings of an impending attack, like the 8/6/01 Presidential Briefing Paper?

No? I'm surprised.

[whistle]

6. Oh my f@cking lord, they are now blaming 9-11 on a communist

...conspiracy among college professors? Give me a break. The bigger the lie, the more it seems believable, well horse shit!

Pound these bastards back into the pig piss holes from which thy have crawled. These are the worst lying, pig-f@cking, fart chocking retards who have ever walked the planet. Liars all of them!

[ProfessorGAC]

9. They Better Not Blame Me To My Face

They would end up crying in embarassment after i got done with them. Someone wants to blame ME for 9/11? F*** You! You're not smart enough to determine the real causation beyond the terror attacks on U.S. soil, so you dumb it down to blaming people like me? I will debate Conquest or Benein on any subject, any time, and will wipe the floor with either of them. They're both small minded, shallow thinking dumbasses.

The Professor

[Clark2008]

10. You go, Professor!

:)

[Viking12]

13. Well stated ProfessorGAC. This Professor had the same reaction.n/t

[poe]

11. "abstractions of fashionable academics"-Like Harvard Business School?

How about the perverse abstraction called neo-liberal economics. Now there is a real wrecking ball in that phantasmagorical thinktankian fundamentalist ideology.

[ComerPerro]

12. And, all this time I thought is was the religious fundamentalists

you know, the ones who attacked us in the name of God. The ones who were funded and supported in the 80s by the Reagan/Bush regime.

[Ezlivin]

14. Leftist flight instructors at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola did it

If we're going to blame anyone we should pin it on those who taught the fuckers to fly.

[ck4829]

15. The lies are so unbelievable

Who are the idiots who believes the left is responsible for terrorism?

What happened to the anti-Communist 'freedom' fighters in Afghanistan in the 70's?

[gratuitous]

16. And why isn't every conservative chucklehead . . . ?

You know, when someone on the so-called Left spouts something nonsensical like this, every "liberal" or "progressive" is immediately trotted out to denounce the kooky ideas of Michael Moore or Noam Chomsky or Ralph Nader, and we are at each others' throats for the amusement of the conservawhackos.

But Bareback Andy and Falafel Boy and Mr. Anal Cyst and all the rest of their cohort won't be asked to utter a peep for or against Mr. Conquest's lunatic rantings. Nobody will be accused of secretly agreeing with Conquest, or judged to be of his ilk by their silence.

Back when we used to have a working Fourth Estate in this country, Mr. Conquest would be subjected to the latter day equivalent of being pilloried in the stocks. Nowadays, he's given a sinecure and a publishing contract.

[Arkana]

17. What a bunch of insensitive asswipes

They have their hands over their ears and their eyes shut. Earth to wingnuts:

--WE'RE NOT THE ONES who invited the Taliban to the governor's mansion while we were governor of Texas.

--WE'RE NOT THE ONES who co-invested in defense firms in the Carlyle Group with members of the bin Laden family.

--WE'RE NOT THE ONES who sold all those arms to Saddam back in the mid-80's because he seemed like such a nice guy at the time.

--WE'RE NOT THE ONES who allowed those 19 hijackers into the United States.

--WE'RE NOT THE ONES who ignored the August 6, 2001 PDB that said 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside U.S." because it "wasn't specific enough."

--WE'RE NOT THE ONES who cut the counterterrorism budget by half, told our people that we "didn't want to hear any more about terrorism and Osama bin Laden", and fired the only man who had a plan to capture bin Laden in the first place.

--WE'RE NOT THE ONES who gave the Taliban $43 million to fight their 'war on drugs' and decided to take them at their word.

--WE'RE NOT THE ONES who let bin Laden get away in the hills of Tora Bora.

--WE'RE NOT THE ONES who hid a man's name on our military records (or lack thereof) because we didn't want the people to find out he used to manage Salem bin Laden's money.

--WE DIDN'T CAUSE 9/11! YOU AND YOUR ASININE MIDDLE EAST POLICY DID!