In expectation of tomorrow's seventh anniversary of 9/11, City Journal has an article about the 9/11 Truthers: the people who are sure that those attacks were carried out by a conspiracy of rogue elements in the U.S. government, not by Al Qaeda.
U.S. opinion polls show surprising numbers of people who say they subscribe to some variant of this theory; what the article does not mention is that it is accepted as real throughout much of the Muslim world. There, apparently, people maintain that either the U.S. government or the Mossad was behind the attacks, for the simple reason that Arabs couldn't have been smart enough to pull it off.
The article notes that Truthers have had no success getting traction during this year's political campaigns. They may dissipate once President Bush leaves office, but the poison they leave behind them in many parts of the globe is sure to remain.
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