Complaceny!
With the vast sums of cash - more than any nation on earth - being dumped into "intellgence" and "defense" I am still amazed there was actually no air cover over places like New York and an incredible lack of, which is now described as "actionable intelligence".
In addition the largest "intelligence agency" in the world did not actually have arabic translators or any significant "feet on the ground". Tho not related, they still did not have "feet on the ground" within Iraq and relied on third party info from UN Inspection Teams.
In the end when 9/11 did happen, we had a nation in a state of hyper-excitement as though they were the first to have experienced terrorism. Take a tip - welcome to the real world! Tho I sure would not wish terrorist acts on anyone.
PS .. I suppose it is pot luck I am alive today - I've felt the blast of a "terrorist" bomb and 30 seconds earlier and I'd have been in the middle of it.
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