When you addressed your reports, if the matter was anything other that absolute routine, one of the included addresses was the White House, literally. The coordination was supposed to be taking place in the White House basement by the National Security Council staff.
When you waste billions of dollars to create an entirely new structure to hide the fact that your National Security Advisor is incompetent, and you ignore the real intelligence that is being provided because it doesn’t correspond to your prejudices, you are the problem, not the intelligence community. When you compound your errors by exposing the single most important network you have in place to monitor weapons of mass destruction in Southwest Asia, because the spouse of the agent-in-charge wrote a negative op-ed piece, you are the problem.
Given the total lack of regard for the system that protected the US for the Cold War, and the political meddling that has taken place place in what should be a professional and apolitical function of government, I’m surprised the government is still able to tell that the sun rises in morning.
With all of the theater you see around you, the United States currently knows less about what is actually happening in the world, than it did on 9/10/2001.
As for the weather, tropical storms kill and destroy things. Some people like to know what they are up to, especially when the storm is headed for them.
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]]>9/11 made the US join the rest of the world. Other countries have suffered through terror attacks and not thrown such a massive hissy fit, stomping about the world bombing anybody and everybody, breaking laws, treaties, and losing the respect and sympathy of the world community. (We also constantly forget the deaths on 9/11 were multinational.)
I have had enough of the media crapping out 9/11 porn. Enough. Let’s stop revisiting the wound and go out and FIX THE PROBLEMS that cause terrorists to target us.
]]>– Badtux the Disgusted Penguin
]]>I remember I was volunteering for KPCC on a pledge drive about the time his first book came out. I took many a call from someone who would not give to NPR because they interviewed “that traitor.” (their words not mine…) Stunned me.
We lost close to 4,000 on 9/11 with thousands more suffering from after affects but millions have died and millions more are suffering in countries that we have been bombing for a decade. We give those people a 9/11 seemingly every week. Where are THOSE stories?
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