That's an optimistic reading of it. The "nice" thing about organizational incompetence is also that it makes a good shield for people that did notice what they

That's an optimistic reading of it. The "nice" thing about organizational incompetence is also that it makes a good shield for people that did notice what they are currently doing and just choose not to act on it, or only in a superficial way. Sadly, many countries (non-)reactions to Afghanistan straddle that line.