Everyone has an “I was… the morning of 9/11” story, each and every single New Yorker’s narrative of that day is vital and important. Paul Greengrass’ United 93 is an insider’s diary to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). From that perspective it is technical, engaging, revealin
g, shocking and emotional. To the extent that it depicts the heroic assault of United Flight 93’s passengers against four fundamentalist terrorists, its very questionable and reeks of propaganda, however clever and engaging, propaganda nonetheless.A catastrophic event like 9/11 can not be dovetailed with an array of conspiracy theories, chief among them the belief that the Bush Administration orchestrated the attacks or armed with the knowledge of pending attacks [as of PDB reports dated August, 2001, when “W” was on vacation] sat back and allowed 3,000 New Yorkers to die to solidify its power structure. Less you forget Bush’s first domestic operation Enduring Freedom, which sought to have Americans buying buying buying; less we not forget the tens of millions of dollars given to Red States to combat terrorism as opposed to the three year NY State battle with the Federal government to get [promised] crucial funding. Many Americans questioned the crash of Flight 93 in a barren Pennsylvania strip mere minutes outside of the metropolitan.
Collateral damage on the part of the US military to avoid further structural damage, possible! Would the American public forgive the harsh [perhaps necessary] destruction of a commercial airplane by Air Force F-17s, probably NOT! Could the story of the brave heroic fight to gain the cockpit to Flight 93 ending in the crash been constructed to ameliorize the American public…. Uh conceivable!
Doubt my cynicism, see the agitprop for yourself!
