Was There an Alternative?
Looking Back on 9/11, a Decade Later
Chomsky, Noam
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/06/was-there-an-alternative/
Date Written: 2011-09-06
Publisher: CounterPunch
Year Published: 2011
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX12939
There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11. The “crime against humanity,” as it was rightly called, could have been approached as a crime, with an international operation to apprehend the likely suspects. That was recognized at the time, but no such idea was even considered.
