Monday morning quarterbacking, the search for silver bullet solutions, blaming “greed,” paranoia, it never ends.
I think Bill Clinton had both reason and opportunity to stop Bin Laden. I don’t press this point because it too is Monday morning quarterbacking. Had he acted at the time, I might have said “Bin who?”
I think there are solutions we can pursue that will work. I’m skeptical of supposedly non-intrusive, highly effective computer programs that none of us can understand.
J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI might or might not have prevented 9/11, but it surely would have stopped a lot of subsequent terrorist attacks. Here are some comprehensible things that I think he would do, that we should do.
Clean up the FBI. The Muslim FBI agent who wouldn’t interrogate a Muslim as a matter of principle is just one agent who would have to go. Second, hire and train agents to infiltrate mosques, which is where a lot recruitment and inflammatory sermons take place. Third, quick deportations of those espousing Jihad.
I’m sure there are many other common sense solutions that would contribute to success. Once you have a police force you can trust, give them your support and let them do their job.
Contrary to liberal politically correct thinking of the Obama administration, the threat of domestic (or foreign-based) terrorism is not uniform. The threat comes from Muslims. Recording our keystrokes does nothing to combat Islamic terrorism.
Well said. I’d still like to know what Sandy Berger removed from the archives to protect the boss. While we’re at it cleaning the FBI, NSA and CIA have housecleaning to do as well.