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CJCRANE

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2. IIRC Carter wrote some policy papers for the neocons.

Reply to McCamy Taylor (Original post)

Wed Mar 4, 2015, 05:47 AM

Mar 2015

He wrote the famous article about "imagining the catastrophic/catalyzing event", a couple of years before 9/11, that predicted the destruction of the WTC and the ensuing wars and crack down on civil liberties. It's like a prelude to the notorious PNAC document about a new "Pearl Harbor-like event".

He also wrote another essay during the Bush era about imagining a series of nuclear terror attacks on the US and the ensuing chaos that would happen.

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