Thursday, October 05, 2006

Would Kinky Friedman have prevented 9/11?

Daniel Shaviro apparently thinks so, as would have just about any other administration or potential administration you care to name (note the conspicuous absence of U.S. Grant on the list...).

Given the seriousness of the warnings, it is plausible that any of the above-named actual or hypothetical Administrations would have paid attention. Likewise, would any of them, if invading Iraq, have done absolutely no planning for the occupation whatsoever? And then made absolutely no effort to succeed, such as by bringing in competent staff rather than political hacks? Again, this is a wildly unique Administration. The resistance to making any inquiry into the al Qaeda threat is completely consistent, however, with how they've acted on other occasions before or since. They never pay attention to information that doesn't fit their biases, even when it is in their interest to do so.

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