They were entirely lucky.
They had a plan. It wasn't about luck.
Would you try to hijack an airplane with a knife cutter? And fly it into a skyscraper?
Of course not, but nobody can dispute than the 9/11 plot was ingenious. Well-planned and financed, resourceful, well executed and brilliant.
But it is foolish to think a bigger follow up isn't in the cards. And frankly, easier.
Every nuclear plant in this country has a storage facility for spent fuel which is largely unprotected (generally, contained in a pool of water outside the plant). ANYONE could fly a small plane full of TNT into such a pool and cause a massive dispersion of toxic material. A small (10kt) nuclear device could easily be detonated at Times Square killing millions. There is literally no limit to the openings for these kinds of attacks.
Why didn't Bush protect us from this obvious threat?
There was nothing obvious about it. Our country, including Bush, didn't understand we were engaged in a war. He understood it on 9/12. Unfortunately, our current president doesn't understand it and as a result, we are back to the pre-9/11 model which allowed 9/11 to happen. Clinton, had he understood this, could have prevented 9/11 by at least a half-dozen actions he failed to take.
As Bush infamously claimed, "Fool me once, shame on you. We won't get fooled again." Unfortunately, the current administration has set the stage for us to be fooled again. |
