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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: one_less who wrote (29184)9/26/2006 3:57:13 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (3) of 541243
 
Purely Monday morning quarterbacking, but we can identify steps that were not taken that allowed 9/11 to happen; whether it was reasonable to expect someone to order them taken is purely subjective. But I would include:

--Hardened cockpit doors would have made the hijackings impossible, indeed any hijackings. Doors are cheap.

--An FBI focus on suspicious reports of activities by Arab students in the US would have caught the flight school episodes.

--A White House focus on Bin Laden could have focused the bureaucracy to be looking in the right place. We know OBL was not high on the agenda, if he was there at all.

No doubt, the next big crisis in the US will reveal several steps we should have initiated earlier and didn't, despite 9/11. But it seems like we can blame both the Clinton and Bush administrations for not orchestrating the government machinery better against a 9/11-type attack, particularly when the same thing was uncovered in Manila several years before.
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