Or...perhaps Al Qaeda is really America's puppet. America's recent military efforts (mostly clandestine ones) directed with the intention of achieving regime change in Lybia and Syria have been aided and abetted by many Muslim proxy fighters who are associated directly with Al Qaeda and other extreme Muslim fundamentalist groups, and who are quite plain about that. They have been doing some of America's dirty work in Lybia and Syria...work which involves bringing down secular governments that don't cooperate 100% with the USA.

Al Qaeda has proven very useful for the architects of the PNAC (the Project for a New American Century)...planning first formulated in the late 90s, and brought to fruition after the 911 attacks...attacks which had the direct result of enabling the Bush administration to do exactly what the key planners of the PNAC wanted to do anway...namely, invade Afghanistan and take it over, invade Iraq and take it over, and after that take over every other independent Muslim nation in the area that had not already made itself an official or a tacit ally of the USA. That primarily meant targeting Lybia, Syria, and Iran...and possibly Pakistan at some point, depending on to what extent the Pakistanis followed American orders or didn't.

The general mood of the public in Pakistan now is hatred of America. It was once admiration for America...before the ruinous wars and occupations that have followed 911.

If Al Qaeda had not existed, the planners of the PNAC would have had to invent them or invent something very similar. Perhaps they indeed did that, to a great extent. They needed a new Boogeyman to scare people with after the collapse of the Communist Bloc in 1989. 911 was, after all, simply too good to be true from the point of view of those few highly-placed and influential people who put together the PNAC. They needed a "Pearl Harbour" type of incident to set their entire future political-military-industrial plan for a One-Superpower-dominated world in motion. Nothing else could have given them the foreign wars they wanted.

And they got it.

Very convenient indeed.

Look up the history of the PNAC. Consider who its members were, and what its plans and aims were. Consider how many of those people served in important roles in the Bush administration. And draw your own conclusions.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century