Who?
WHAAA?? The idea of terrorist using an airliner as a weapon goes back to a Tom Clancy novel.
Thanks a lot, Tommy...
The attack on the Death Star is risky but NOT a suicide mission. Warcraft are used firing weapons. Civilian airliners are NOT used. The Death Star is NOT a civilian building full of innocent people working their ordinary daily jobs.
Oh, but aside from a few such variations the 9/11 attackers were just like Luke Skywalker!
sheesh, Margaret Atwood really is a stoopid as we thought.
I’m pretty sure the OBL plan didn’t include the towers collapsing pancake style....
but never mind that was GWB plan all along / S
And it’s my belief Ray Stevens got the idea
for Guitarzan from the lyrics of Popsicles, Icicles.
It’s where they sing “he loves bright stars and guitars and...” They run guitars into ‘and,’ getting guitarzan.
She’s correct that during the Bush Administration the pentagon hired writers to conceive of possible scenarios related to attacks. That’s not anew technique though, it’s been done for awhile (See 3 Days of the Condor - a movie from the early 1970s which involves a writer of such)
Bin Laden wanted a visible target that would equate to movie-like disasters and make an impression on the American people.
All of this is readily available info - but she’s stupidly wrong on Star Wars.
She’s not as amart as she thinks she is.
“If there’s something The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood knows about, it’s life imitating art.”
Margaret Atwood doesn’t know much about anything except writing popular but ridiculous novels.
Of course the inspiration for my “Star Wars” was “The Dambusters”.
Which in turn was inspired by the real life OPERATION CHASTISE to destroy the Ruhr dams.
Which in turn was an event in World War II.
So she’s actually blaming 9/11 on Hitler…
Or anything else for that matter. In fact if you made a list of what Atwood knows about it would fit on a postage stamp.
I guess they did not cover kamikaze attacks in WWII in whatever poor excuse for education she got.
Seriously stupid.
She is a complete idiot but minds of mush, especially those who believe the Earth is flat, eat this stuff up as this will ooze from absurdity into what people want to believe. Maybe Snopes will even reinforce this.
April 7,1994
While I won’t say whether Atwood is in any way correct about her statements (she has shown a lot of ignorance for kamikazes, though I will note that Star Wars did have the heroes engaging in a LOT of Kamikaze attacks), I can’t say I’m surprised if al Qaeda did in fact take inspiration from Star Wars when doing 9/11, considering that Revenge of the Sith had in fact been used as terrorist propaganda in Iran. Don’t believe me? Read this:
Besides, Lucas made it very clear that he rooted for the Vietcong during the Vietnam War, and in fact had the so-called “good guys”, the Rebel Alliance, be based on the Vietcong while the so-called “villains”, the Empire, were supposed to be us Americans, and based on what he said at Cannes Film Festival, he most likely supported al Qaeda as well, certainly Iraq.