Spiritual/Political/Philosophical Blog on the Nature of Truth and Falsehood and Heaven
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Wednesday, May 15, 2002 Blueprint for Blundering Today's revelation about Bush knowing about possible future attempts to hijack airplanes puts a whole new light upon his administration. I don't quite know how to respond, but as I ponder (out loud) about this, I have to wonder about seriousness and competence on Bush's part. Why? Because it was not as if the government wasn't aware of the threat OBL posed to our military forces and our people. Nor was the possibility of using airplanes as missiles entirely a new conception. Frankly, I am heartsick about this new information, for it essentially portrays the administration and government fiddling while Rome was burning. ('m sure somebody out there has a better metaphor, but I'm not feeling very creative just now). It takes me back to Reagan who talked a great game, but got our people blown up in Lebanon (and did nothing about it,) and got a plane blown up over Scotland (as Libya's revenge against his raid on Qaddafi) and did nothing about it. Who in fact traded arms for hostages with Iran, and so on. A writer at NRO referred to our efforts lately as "the great shrinking war", and that's what it sure looks like. Now I find out Bush could have prevented 9/11, had fair warning of plane hijackings to come, and nothing was done to prevent it except to pass on the information to careless agencies. Imagine if that news had come out the week after 9/11. Bush's name would be Mudd; and he's starting to look like mud to me more and more. Imagine being a man who watched 9/11 happen, knowing he could have prevented it if he had been diligent and concerned about only the most criminal man on the loose in the 21st Century! It boggles the mind. Are we ever going to get a decent leader? Now, we begin to see how the notion of a Messiah animated so much of ancient people's literature and Scripture, the poetry of desire for salvation. Lord, Lord, send us someone whom we can trust to lead us. But it doesn't happen. The one we are sent is not a savior of nations and peoples, but a crucified holy roller who only saves people, not peoples and nations. Furthermore Bryan Preston, the JunkYardBlogger, seems to be agreeing with me, or rather, great minds are thinking alike about Bush. P.S. Instapundit adds some reader's thoughts on this. One very telling thought, "The FBI was concerned because Middle Eastern men were training in flight schools. So obviously they were concerned about planes being hijacked? Does it take flight training to hijack a plane? " That kind of confirms it for me about Bush and the FBI on this. It's not enough to say they blew it big time - that's an understatement. I don't really have a word for the level of this kind of blundering - it's a kind of tunnel vision of disinterest of things outside an agenda. Bill Clinton had it and it appears Bush did or does too. Bush then: "I'm not really worried much about terrorism right now. I'm focused more on my tax cut." Bush now: "I'm not really focused on domestic issues, judges, Israel's right to self-defense, ANWR, and free trade, I'm kind of interested in Iraq." P.P.S. On second thought, I may have bee a little premature in my judgement. It appears that Bush had a plan on his desk ready to implement before 9/11 that would have altered our approach and resources on terrorism; so I can't say his focus was elsewhere and disinterested. It does appear, though, that the warnings and evidence were simply being ignored or evaluated without any sense of urgency. Bryan Preston of JunkYardBlog makes an excellent point that the Dems and others had so eviscerated our intelligence agencies and made any FBI inquiries and INS investigations into immigrants legal and illegal and visa abusers so politicaly unpopular, that our government was more worried about being charged with racial profiling than with catching bad guys. posted by Mark Butterworth | 11:41 PM | |
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