# Why do 9/11 conspiracy theorists continue to live in the USA for the most part? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 22, 2014, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-9-11-conspiracy-theorists-continue-to-live-in-the-usa-for-the-most-part/699193 "2014-09-22T09:50:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-9-11-conspiracy-theorists-continue-to-live-in-the-usa-for-the-most-part/699193/61 "2014-09-23T19:03:23Z")
> [@Latro](#): > > What? Where do you get that from?? We asked you first. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-9-11-conspiracy-theorists-continue-to-live-in-the-usa-for-the-most-part/699193/62 "2014-09-23T20:47:25Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > those Japanese or Middle Easterners could never have simply outsmarted us. Particularly ones dismissed as “living in caves”. ---
**Author:** ![Deu5Vult](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ec9cab/32.png) [@Deu5Vult](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deu5Vult)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-9-11-conspiracy-theorists-continue-to-live-in-the-usa-for-the-most-part/699193/63 "2014-09-24T11:17:46Z")
> [@Latro](#): > > So, you are hinging your argument, that I am being vague, on the fact that “a couple”= 2 You would prefer to argue about whether your argument is vague or not rather than defend and explain the meaning of certain elements of it? I’m not sure the 911 non-nut-jobs would appreciate someone of your diplomatic calibre speaking on their behalf. To clarify, ‘a couple’ in itself is not vague, no. It means two. So who came into power two months before 911? Either recognise your error or name the group. Presumably you’ve neither just sprang into existence a month ago nor been living under a rock for quite some time, so I imagine an answer to this end shouldn’t be too difficult? > [@Latro](#): > > and that for the life of you you can’t figure out what is meant by “another Pearl Harbor”. Of course I can; you’re using it as a weak rhetorical device that has zero application here and even less value of analogy outwith a precursor to war context. Now, why don’t you tell us what _you_ think it means? > [@Latro](#): > > How many “Pearl Harbors” have we had the last couple of decades? None. And how many times has the US gone to war without a ‘Pearl Harbor’, ever? ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-9-11-conspiracy-theorists-continue-to-live-in-the-usa-for-the-most-part/699193/64 "2014-09-25T00:29:38Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Particularly ones dismissed as “living in caves”. I can’t believe I am going to defend truthers, but I can’t remember ever hearing a statement that middle easterners in general live in caves. Just that the USA the most powerful nation on earth has spent trillions of dollars fighting religious extremist militants that were supposed to be hiding and operating in caves, with the implication that it is mostly corruption. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-9-11-conspiracy-theorists-continue-to-live-in-the-usa-for-the-most-part/699193/65 "2014-09-25T03:31:41Z")
> [@grude](#): > > I can’t believe I am going to defend truthers, but I can’t remember ever hearing a statement that middle easterners in general live in caves. Not in general. Just the terrorists, the implication being that they’re too dumb and/or technologically backwards to have pulled off 9/11. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-9-11-conspiracy-theorists-continue-to-live-in-the-usa-for-the-most-part/699193/66 "2014-09-25T03:51:48Z")
To be fair, such a mentality is typically limited to racist twoofers. You know, the ones who refer to Islamic terrorists as “towelheads”. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-9-11-conspiracy-theorists-continue-to-live-in-the-usa-for-the-most-part/699193/67 "2014-09-25T13:57:51Z")
[Found one](http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000082/nest/234822578?p=4&d=234854508#234854508): > [@dropkick23](#): > > Could you possibly reverse the position any more? They should say that you are clinging to the fantasy that a few men from caves knocked down 3 skyscrapers with 2 planes and you won’t let it go, no matter what the evidence says. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-9-11-conspiracy-theorists-continue-to-live-in-the-usa-for-the-most-part/699193.md?page=3)