Is The War In Afghanistan Justified By 9/11?

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." - Emerson

David Ray Griffin, a retired professor of religion and theology, is most known for being one of the leading voices to call for a new independent investigation into the 9/11 attacks. Griffin is author of several books on 9/11, including "The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11," "The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why the Final Official Report About 9/11 Is Unscientific and False," and "Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action."

Griffin has also delivered many talks on the lecture circuit. Three of them are "9/11 and the American Empire: How Should Religious People Respond?" and "9/11: The Myth and the Reality" and "9/11, American Empire, and Christian Faith."

In his lecture "9/11, the American Empire, and Christian Faith," David Ray Griffin raises the question about the nature of evil as it relates to the greatest modern day Goliath, the American Empire. Speaking as a theologian and an uncompromising truth-teller, Griffin comes to the judgment that the US empire is in fact evil, just like every other empire that has appeared throughout the ages. He says:

Evil Empire?

If so, then we must ask whether the term “evil,” which US leaders have used so freely to describe other nations, must be applied to our own. There can be no doubt about the application of this term to 9/11. We can here quote President Bush himself, who on the evening of 9/11 said: “”Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. . . . Today, our nation saw evil, the very worst of human nature.”⁸⁰ No explanation of why the attacks were despicable was necessary. The proposition was self-evident. This proposition is even more self-evident, of course, if the attacks were orchestrated by our own government.

Accordingly, if we accept 9/11 as a revelation of the American empire—of the basic values it embodies—must we not conclude that this empire is itself evil?

This is David Ray Griffin's latest lecture, it was delivered on April 27, 2010 in Chicago, and it is called "Is The War In Afghanistan Justified By 9/11?"

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