I don’t agree with this part:
“just as Bush will go down in history as the president who failed to connect the dots that could have prevented 9/11. “
Before 9/11, the entire world had not concept of such an attack. Oh I know strategic planners run worst case scenarios of which 9/11 was not the worst. But, note the shock and disbelief world wide when it happened. The fact that we were not at war and that civilians were attacked etc. I am not saying that by default Bush handled security faultlessly, but when I read that he didn’t connect the dots I think ‘of ME threat, terrorist threat, etc.’ on the order of which the world had seen previously, not that the scale of evil seen on 9/11 could have been anticipated.
Good that you caught that. Maybe he is saying that is the rap Bush got, but undeserved. The flaw was in intel not acted on, but... as you say and make an important point: what occurred was un-precedented.
especially given quite alot was rigged so the dots could not be connected (gorelick).
you couldn’t “connect the dots” back then because of the Jamie Gorelick wall.