No, you keep choosing to ignore all the evidence in the lead-up, as Presented directly to your commander in chief.FEOS wrote:
That is the part you keep missing.
This is pointless. It can't be explained any more simply than it already has been.Dilbert_X wrote:
No, you keep choosing to ignore all the evidence in the lead-up, as Presented directly to your commander in chief.FEOS wrote:
That is the part you keep missing.
As Braddock pointed out, Kamikazes were around some time ago, it was hardly inconceivable.
Probably there were too many military men in the room for any lateral thinking to happen.
History is written by the victor.usmarine wrote:
fuck i knew i should have been a revisionist historian. so easy.
he who have the gold make the rulesTheAussieReaper wrote:
History is written by the victor.usmarine wrote:
fuck i knew i should have been a revisionist historian. so easy.
right.Dilbert_X wrote:
You need to look forwards occasionally.USM wrote:
when the hijacking policy had been working for years..........why any real alarm if you think about it.
Precisely, the intel was cut and dried, on the President's desk in black and white.FEOS wrote:
This is pointless. It can't be explained any more simply than it already has been.
Not particularly, Condi deserves at least half the blame.FEOS wrote:
You've just got your "hate Bush" "blinkers" on.
Exactly, no one on the team could join dots, use their imagination, think out of the box, conceptualise a scenario which hadn't already happened or didn't fit with their inaccurate and out of date view of the situation - despite a swathe of new info in front of them.FEOS wrote:
No evidence was ignored. It was viewed through a pre-9/11 lens
Thats not what I said, your point was that no-one could have conceived the idea of purposely crashing an aircraft into a building.FEOS wrote:
Kamikazes: Desperate nation-state with completely different ethos during nation-on-nation all-out war for survival. Yep...exactly the same situation.
Not anywhere I've worked, the few ex-military types I've come across have been fired pretty swiftly because they were ignorant, arrogant and blinkered.FEOS wrote:
Do you have even a concept of how the military mind works? Maybe you should look into why corporations prefer to hire former military for middle and upper management.
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Jesus mate you're pretty unbelievable at timesDilbert_X wrote:
In fact of all the companies I've worked in I can't think of one where I found ex-military in a mgmt position.
They are OK for assembly line work, if you can keep the sober, not much else.
Yeah, just that massive airline plot they foiled and the countless plot's in between. But of course the largest intelligence system in the world doesn't know anything, in fact you know more I'm sureDilbert_X wrote:
But this is pointless, if you can't see your errors you're no going to learn from them.
No doubt AQ, or sympathisers, are planning something, but you guys are so busy bombing Pakistan and torturing those involved 7 years ago you won't see it coming.
OK, the second line was a joke.MOAB wrote:
Jesus mate you're pretty unbelievable at times
Just arguing against the head in the sand think inside the tiniest box approach - didn't work for 9/11.MOAB wrote:
But of course the largest intelligence system in the world doesn't know anything, in fact you know more I'm sure
