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I did, BTW, and Churchill does have a good point about 9/11 being "blowback" for some of America's foreign policy misdeeds. Where he loses me is the utter contempt he seems to have for ordinary American citizens (most people, not just Americans, are more concerned with their own everyday lives then they are with people thousands of miles away), his concept that Middle Easterners "value life – all lives, not just their own – far more highly than do their U.S. counterparts", his concept of "national karma" (especially in the addendum - since when does al-Quida give a shit about Native Americans or Korean civilians?), and the fact that he acts like the U.S. is the only country in the world that ever did anything bad (by his logic, almost every major nation in the world is due some sort of massive catastrophe).
The biggest problem with Churchill's essay is that the tone of it obscures the issues he's trying to raise - it's fine to raise questions about American foreign policy and wheather that lead to 9/11, but (depending on how you read the essay) he either said that 9/11 was completely justified or he came damn close to it. Hell, it could be argued that nobody's completely innocent - doesn't mean that everybody deserves to die...
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