View Single Post
Old 04-02-2004, 12:47 PM  
Webby
Too lazy to set a custom title
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Far far away - as possible
Posts: 14,956
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.
Webby is offline   Share thread on Digg Share thread on Twitter Share thread on Reddit Share thread on Facebook Reply With Quote