The "war on terror" has served as justification for:
- permanent mass surveillance of global communications
- total governmental control and visibility into fiat money financial transactions
- endless U.S. participation in or support for military campaigns in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Syria, and the concomitant trillions spent on military hardware and services
- increasingly lawless privacy intrusions at U.S. border crossings
- a huge cottage industry of corrupt dealings as detailed in the WikiLeaks dumps
It's not even necessary to believe any conspiracy theories to recognize that the events of 9/11 lent direct support to a multitude of imperialist and corporatist agendas.
You make it sound like all this stuff started with "war on terror". The US has been at war (and overthrowing governments) ever since WW2. And I'd be seriously surprised if the government did not have "total visibility" into non-cash financial transactions, phone calls, and internet traffic well before 2001.
- permanent mass surveillance of global communications
- total governmental control and visibility into fiat money financial transactions
- endless U.S. participation in or support for military campaigns in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Syria, and the concomitant trillions spent on military hardware and services
- increasingly lawless privacy intrusions at U.S. border crossings
- a huge cottage industry of corrupt dealings as detailed in the WikiLeaks dumps
It's not even necessary to believe any conspiracy theories to recognize that the events of 9/11 lent direct support to a multitude of imperialist and corporatist agendas.