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As they were percolating away in their think tanks, getting tantalizingly closer to the seat of power, they knew that the population wouldn't give them the mandate they needed without a huge fear for them to feed. They wished for a catastrophe, but they didn't really expect one as big as 9/11.
Their timing was set for several, smaller, but escalating attacks that could nurture the fear so they could tend the embers and fan it into something they could work with as they got their people in place.
9/11 made them put their plans on fast-forward, something they weren't prepared to do. There weren't enough BBV machines in place. Even the conservatives whose support they had counted on weren't completely on board. Some of them still had (gasp!) principles!
Rushing their plans into effect, unprepared, caused them to make massive tactical blunders, the results of which are making their way into the media as we speak.
America will be just fine for a few more decades, I'm sure of it.
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