![]() Vanity Fair refused to publish an essay he wrote reflecting on the attacks. Indeed, Vidal claimed the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 occurred because the Bush administration was "incompetent" and Bush himself was "inactive and inopportune". ![]() ![]() It's no surprise then that he detested George W Bush. We'll have a military dictatorship pretty soon, on the basis that nobody else can hold everything together." There was a gleefulness in Vidal's acerbic denunciations of the US: significantly, the New York Times's obituarist yesterday charged that he "presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilisation". ![]() He told the Times three years ago that the US is "rotting away at a funereal pace. ![]()
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