#260 The Second Plane

At one point, 16% of Americans claimed to believe that 9/11 was an inside job, that we did it to ourselves to motivate a war in Iraq, to steal their oil. Rather than just purchase the oil? We decided to fly planes into our own buildings and murder ourselves and start a couple of wars. Because that would have been, what, less expensive?

Anyone over 40 probably has very vivid memories of September 11th, 2001. I certainly do. I can remember how angry I was in those first few days, or months really. I was angry over the event itself, of course, and for the loss of life and for the sheer disorder that had been unleashed in our world.

[On 9/11], an estimated 50-200 people jumped or fell out of the towers before they collapsed.