[Netz]

How is it that since Pearl Harbor, all the way to 9/11, the US is ALWAYS caught off guard? The world's best INTEL, the best Technology, brightest people, etc.?
I think it is a conceptual problem. It must be based on policies that are shortsighted, unrealistic and NIAVE that then render the INTEL community blind.
The current administration is not only blind but the most dangerous to global US interests since Pearl Harbor. We are witnessing Global US retreat. Eventually the dangers will reach US soil once again.

[USAF80]

We have had the intel on the Middle Eastern threat all the way back in the late 80s and it was briefed then. The Russian Bear was the bigger threat at the time so the info was just filed away.

The US military always knew that airplanes can be used manned cruise missiles. Think Okinawa in 1945 where airplanes wrecked havoc with the fleet.

[Norm Lenhart]

The core of this is that the planet has a liberal problem.

fins a closet, put them back in it where they were for most of history and the problems reduce drastically. Not entirely, but drastically.

Because with no liberals in power, sane people can deal with anything.