I hereby declare the 9/11 Commission a waste. What may have been a useful endeavor to examine intelligence shortcomings and institutional problems in the pre-9/11 era has now effectively been so lost in partisan finger-pointing (here is the latest installment)that I really couldn’t give two hoots in hell about their conclusion anymore.
I know what happened- we didn’t take terrorism seriously enough, in either administration, and we got hit hard by a group of savages. The questions that we need to ask now is are we doing enough and are we doing the right things.
rick
Here, here. Save it for something important. Like, what can we do to prevent future attacks? At this point it matters not whose fault it was, cuz honestly, it was nobody’s fault. We are Americans, we can’t conceive of such a heinous crime and be able to magically foretell it happening.
Right, right, there were intel screwups and inter-service rivalries and all the SAME STUFF THAT HAS ALWAYS infected the government.
Got a better plan? Better government? Do we need a Stalin or a Kim or a Mullah here; would that EVER have a chance of Possibly preventing something like this?
Yeah, it must be fixed. So, fix it, dammit. Save the blame, the finger pointing, the grandstanding, for something less important than the lives of our citizens.
Take your mandates, politicians, and do something.
CadillaqJaq
To the Commission: Quit pointing fingers and enough already of the political posturing; affix the blame on the prepetrators and then get on with a plan to make certain we never suffer a 9/11 ever again.
burnplant
Yeah, let’s “Move On”…it’s not like there was sex involved.
Don Sorrells
It is time to move on and take steps to protect America from other horrible terroristic attacks. Our government is big and inefficient and important parts of the government have not talked to one another in the past. There is plenty of blame to go around and it is counter productive.
Let’s get together and protect America in the days and years yet to come.
Commission members have forgotten their mission.