juandelacruz's picture

useful distinctions

Hi G,

For the benefit of the new readers, I just want to point out that MIHOP does not refer to the US Government as a whole and ZIHOP does not refer to the Israeli state or government as a whole in their participation in 9-11.

The distinction is important because when analyzing events, one may think for example that some actions related to 9-11 hurt or rather set back the interests of the US Government, so one may mistakenly conclude that it could not have been MIHOP. But that is because MIHOP only refers to a subset of the US Government, and their interests do not align completely with that of the US Government as a whole nor for the US State in general. The same can be said of the Israeli government's involvement, only a subset of which was likely involved in 9-11.

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