Re:Thanks for pointing out what a lot of people don't understand
No, thank you for pointing out this web site. I found another interesting article on what we should, or should not have known prior to Sept 11..... He throws punches at everybody....... I think I'm beginning to like this Ostrowski guy......
Prior Knowledge
by James Ostrowski
mises.org
Concerning the foreknowledge of hijackings by bin Laden a month before September 11, the reaction is more interesting than the story itself. Democrats responded with feigned outrage masking restrained glee. Prior to this revelation, Bush had more of a lock on 2004 than George Washington in 1792.
If you think their real concern was stopping terrorism, please tell me why Democrats have done so much to provoke terrorism in the last 100 years. Their Wilsonian foreign policy and the long-range consequences of various "Democrat wars" helped get us into this mess in the first place. Democratic fingerprints are all over the disastrous U.S. foreign policy..............................
Now let’s talk about the Republicans. Republicans style themselves as the smart and competent and tough and realist party in foreign affairs. They clean up the messes the Democrats get us into, they say. Incredibly, the Republicans boast that their Democratic friends secretly tell them they are glad the Republicans are in charge at times like these. Well, the Republicans were in charge and on guard on September 11 and we got the worst day in American history. But it wasn’t their fault, they say; it was Clinton’s.
This is the same phenomenon currently described by the wily Novak: when you screw up, quick, blame the other guy. Republicans also manipulate fact and emotion to preserve their own power and pelf. They do what all politicians do: prevaricate for power. I was so revolted by the blame game that I held my nose and defended Clinton (sort of).................................
With all this insanity, we have come full circle from the quaint theory that government exists to protect people and property. Instead, our government now exists to stir up foreign enemies against the people, make sure those enemies can enter the country safely and travel freely, protect those enemies from discrimination by private firms, and finally, prevent those firms from defending their own customers and property.
Republican and Democratic heads should roll, and the bigger the heads, the better. Not because of the failure to properly respond to a single briefing, but because of our disastrous 100-year-old foreign policy and because a government that cannot protect us--and often prevents us from protecting ourselves--insists on pointlessly meddling into obscure disputes in far corners of the globe and making unnecessary enemies in conflicts in which average Americans haven’t the slightest interest.
Institutions should roll, too, because the modern state, by its very nature, is incompetent, self-serving, mendacious, unresponsive, irresponsible, provocative, bellicose, and deadly. Above all, it is unaccountable. Just ask yourself what would happen to a private security firm that permitted this kind of disaster, even without foreknowledge. Let’s just say it wouldn’t get a raise.
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