On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 9/11 happened for 3 core reasons:
>
> (1.) Foreign policy: US enabling of corrupt mid-east regimes or
> meddling in internal affairs

The Saudis asked us there to protect them against Iraq. So that
argument doesn't work.

> (2.) Domestic policy: US immigration enforcement failure (enforcement
> of student visas)

That's a tricky one.

> (3.) Domestic procedure: US security communication (Bush to listen,
> the FBI to listen, the CIA to coordinate, etc etc)

Clinton broke that, Bush fixed it.

> The real question is are any of these actually changed?  No.
>
> (1.) Bush's war in Iraq has made #1 1000x worse and we're risking even
> more damage with Afghanistan now.

What? I heard many Mid-East countries are upset that Obama is abandoning them.
Yeah you'll always find extremists that hate us but the Iraq war was a
success. I say was because I'm nit sure that'll be true in the future.

> (2.) It's not clear that enforcement is better, it's just harder to
> get the visas.

Well, the fact that the Patriot Act just stopped a major terrorist
attack in the US shows that it is working. You can give credit to
Obama for that since he didn't dismantle Bush's policies.


> (3.) DHS - has it fixed anything?  Doesn't seem like it.

Yes, not perfect but it worked better than what Clinton left us.

> Thus we'd be serious idiots to test our non-fixed systems.

Your trying to hard to save his image, let it go. If he was a great
leader as you thought, he would have known Chicago didn't have a
chance. That's according to the NYT. Now he's going to take on Iran 

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