September 11, 2001: An Intelligence Failure?

September 11, 2001: An Intelligence Failure?
Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 - 07:00PM
More video info at iop.harvard.edu/node/2278

[@whoopty54]

They played American citizens like fools and puppets.

[@peacefusion]

I've said this before. But I agree this was a failure. That terrorism isn't any new danger, but we often build our societies around office tape safety. And when things like terrorism occurs, it only shows our flaws in emergencies. In how we prevent, respond, and rescue. Often the prevention is what takes the most lives, the corruption and negligence within our facades of billion dollar working systems. I remember when this happened, it was a slap to the face on peace-time america in how blind we are to threats from the rest of the world. 9/11 was the peak of national peaceful ignorance.

[@klk1900]

Remember, 1946-2000 we overthrew 83 governments around the world. This was osama bin ladens #1 motive he give on video. So technically we could say “IF WE WERE NOT HELL BENT ON OVERTHROWING AND STICKING OUR HANDS IN OTHER PEOPLES COOKIE JARS. WE NEVER WOULD’VE HAD THE ENEMY TO HAVE A INTEL FAILURE”. -- now I understand if we wanna live high on the hog, we gotta do screwed up stuff to get control of natural resources. But we gotta understand if we do those things; we will provoke attacks, it’s basic human psychology. -- The Arabs love to say “An eye for an eye”. -- also, Usually Terrorist are bidding for a state that can NOT overtly attack its enemy and survive politically. So usually Terrorist are just bidding for some unnamed state. Iran has hamas bid for them. They had a falling out, but still do things together. -. I would bet osama was bidding for someone we pissed off. Maybe not blatantly. But I bet somebody made a comment under there breath like “somebody should do something about those Americans pushing us around”. - basically where they would have plausible deniability.

[@iluv2troll619]

Too bad they never offered me a job. I study game theory, I could have told you al-Qaeda's long term goals decades ago.