“Dreaming War” by: Gore Vidal

With the Cheney-Bush junta conducting “perpetual war”, Vidal asks whose interests are served by a doctrine of pre-emptive attack. Was the rubble in Afghanistan turned to more rubble to avenge the 3,000 slaughtered on September 11? Or was Osama “chosen on aesthetic grounds to be the frightening logo for our long contemplated invasion and conquest of Afghanistan”?