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> ... proofs were lacking on both sides ... religious fundamentalists (either christians or muslims). These are equally ridiculous statements. We know who did
by schrototo 16y ago
> ... proofs were lacking on both sides ... religious fundamentalists (either christians or muslims).
These are equally ridiculous statements. We know who did it, we know how they did it, we know why they did it. People just can't accept that enormous events can have relatively simple causes.
- doki_pen 16y agoIt's ridiculous to think that there is no possibility that there were people who could have prevented it, but choose not to.
- jonhendry 16y agoTo the extent this is a possibility, it's more likely they didn't know exactly what 'it' was going to be, and were expecting something comparatively minor.
- schrototo 16y ago"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
- 5l 16y agoEven better, when ignorant, don't attribute it to anything.
- rbanffy 16y agoWhile I think the intelligence agencies were just incompetent to identify the proper threat, perhaps for lack of an adequately warped imagination (911 was a game changer in the rules of plane highjacking - nobody ever used a passenger plane as a missile before), I don't think anyone allowed it to happen on purpose. However, the president and his associates certainly saw the opportunity and ran with it. The damage done will take decades to undo.
- Joeri 16y ago"911 was a game changer in the rules of plane highjacking - nobody ever used a passenger plane as a missile before" True for civilian planes, but it stretches the imagination a little too far that the US military could discount planes as missiles, given the precedent of pearl harbor.
- prodigal_erik 16y agoIt would be startling if they overlooked a threat vividly described in a best-selling novel seven years before, Debt of Honor.
- markokocic 16y agoJust google for Nikola Kavaja.