Don > The buck still stops at the top.
Indeed. But the problem I have is to identify the top. Sure, W is, to all intents and purposes, the top -- but is he, in fact? Or is he merely the figurehead for the American people. The president, simply because there is one.
When one reads through some of that Zackheim stuff, for example this,
allamericanpatriots.com
...one immediately becomes impressed with the complexity and ramifications of the "military-industrial-administrative-academic-etc" complex. In fact, as you suggest, it is hard to imagine that Zackheim could have, and on his own, been the "Mastermind". His CV shows he was incredibly busy with his career in the "m-i-a-a complex", even to the point of obsession. He is certainly very able and, indeed, merit-worthy and, without doubt, one of the "central" neocons. But, in the midst of all his other responsibilities, to have found the time to organize an operation as complex as 9/11, I very much have my doubts.
In my opinion, operations such as 9/11 have to be planned and executed by a special and highly secret group which is dedicated to the purpose. In fact, from what I have read, it would seem 9/11 must have taken years in planning. It was definitely not something that could have been done on the spur of the moment or even planned and controlled from a cave in Afghanistan, for that matter. That's why I have a feeling it could have even have been "on the books" for some time before W became president. But, as I say above, the question is, "Whose books?" |
