The expanse of that attack reaches far beyond that day. It encompasses for me the agenda of deceit that followed including the Iraq War. What sincerely bothers me is that those attacks became a political drumbeat more than the depth of understanding what occurred that day and why.
I think the wars that followed those attacks have proven to be excessive. Osama bin Laden caught democracy unaware of the dangers of the lack of security of our infrastructure. The attacks were also a failure of intelligence in that the brevity of it never was regarded as important by the president or the cabinet of that time.
There needs to be a legislative trigger that compels a president to act in protection of national security. Senator Feinstein was very verbal after the attack to bring the truth forward of her knowledge and attempts to bring brevity to the importance of the intelligence to the Vice President. She should have been able to declare a national security threat to the people, hence Congress within no longer than one week of the intelligence report if needed. I would have paid attention to any Congress person with such intelligence. The airlines definitely would have paid attention to a congressional letter. Such capacity would stem the tolerance of nitwits in the government. Sharing is caring.
I could go on and on about the unseen truths, but, there is one that was overshadowed by the long and unnecessary wars; the climate crisis was distanced to Americans, hence, made to be unimportant. We cannot afford to allow such distraction again in the face of the dangers that accompany Earth's warming. It is time to take on the Climate Crisis seriously for our children and their future.
