Yesterday, Gary Farber ranted about reactions to the news that the Bush administration DID know an attack was imminent in early september, even that was likely to involve hijacked airplanes. Unfortunately, he completely misses the point:
CRYSTAL BALL TIME: I’ve made the error of looking at various leftist blogs ranting on about how Bush Should Have Known About 9/11, and He Is All To Blame, because We Had The Information.
Notices Gary doesn’t mention which blogs, so there’s no way of checking for ourselves whether said blogs are talking sense or bullocks. Nice way of Using Capitals For Ridicule as well as good use of the Dreaded Label of “leftist”.
Fine. We now have new warnings. Put up or shut up. Reveal, due to these Warnings, what the next attack will be. It’s As Clear As before 9/11. Or pay attention to the fact that intelligence doesn’t work that way: it analyzes what happened, and what has been heard; it’s not, in fact, a Predictor Of The Future By The Force.
Not that anybody’s been saying that.
What people like Avedon Carol (to mention just one leftist blogger) have been saying is that the attacks were predicted, were not something new or out of the blue (remember the 1993 WTC attack?) and that it was the Bush administration not taking terrorism seriously as a threat that helped make the attacks possible.
And the attacks were predicted, as Glenn Reynolds noted. Then again, you really cannot trust such a loony leftist as Glenn.
(I just looove Gary’s little challenge there. I would even take him up on it, if I could get the keys to the various US intelligence systems.)
Nitwits. You can blame Clinton, or Bush, and each blaming is equally, um, uninformed. And, how do we say in English? Stupid. Or simply partisan. Yeah, it’s all the fault of the last President you don’t like. Snore. Also, God is to blame for my pants tearing. I’m sure it’s terribly comforting to find a source to put blame to.
Now this is just silly. Contrary to what Gary thinks, it is important to know who failed their duties, to have an inquest into why the September 11 attacks had not been prevented. If only to make sure it won’t happen again. If the US leaders have been asleep on the job, I personally would like to know it. Perhaps we could, you know, replace them or at least get them to take their jobs seriously and actually go after the responsible parties, instead of attacking such threats to national security like Cuba and elected Venezuelan presidents.
(Do you notice the way in which Gary compares this wholly justified criticism of Bush with the ravings of the Hate Clinton Brigade, as if the two were equivalent?)
A partisan political source in America, that is. Because that’s what’s important. Domestic quibbles: all important. Mere world-wide enemies trying to kill us: oh, wait, they’re out there, too?
Yeah Gary, that’s all this is, partisan quibbles. Uh huh. How could any criticism of the Fearless Leaders be anything but?
I’m so glad so many people grasp what’s important.
If only this went for Gary as well…
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