Mr. Raimondo. I have been reading your articles for a long time now. I regard you as one of the best observers of the U.S. political scene and one of the sharpest and most stylish writers of political commentary anywhere. Yet, I am baffled here.

As another commenter noted, you contradict yourself grossly. And while proud of being quick to notice the suppressed evidence of Israeli involvement you fail to see things that are plain as day—the demolition of the towers, and the lack of any big jet at the Pentagon.

It is a stunning indictment of the poverty of U.S. science education that masses of people can blindly accept the idea that two planes can turn three entire towers to dust, despite seeing the events repeatedly. So brainwashed as to have no intuition at all about the physical laws of nature!

In view of your undoubted perspicacity and strange position here, one must really question your motives. Perhaps your twisted position is somehow the consequence of expressed or unexpressed contraints set by your financial sponsors.

It is unfortunate enough that a pivotal issue like 911 is given short shrift in this journal, despite the fact that exposing it as a charade could conceivably do far, far more for the antiwar cause than anything else, but muddying the waters as you have done here is deeply unfortunate.

If it is a matter of having researched or reflected too little then please correct yourself.

Right now it looks like antiwar.com, Democracy Now, the Huffington Post, and other self-styled "truth to power" media, as well as marqee anti-establishment figures like Naom Chomsky, who have dutifully aided the establishment in keeping the lid on the truth of 911, are being badly upstaged by Charlie Sheen.

I have to admit that there is something wonderful in seeing a dissolute, B-grade actor appear as a moral and intellectual giant alongside self-righteous but compromised intellectuals.