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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
No. My point was that you guys (I don't remember whether you've said this specifically, and I don't want to put words in your mouth) defend the President by saying there's really nothing he reasonably could have done before 9/11 to prevent the attacks, and then you turn around and boast about the fact that there haven't been any attacks since then.
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Given the intelligence pre-9/11, what would you have had him do? Do you honestly think pre-9/11 there would have been support for invading Afghanistan?
The only thing I can think of that could have been done is to not stop investigating Arabs/muslims in the US attending flying schools. But that was not politically correct to do so it wasn't done.
As for the fact that we have not suffered terrorism in the US since 9/11, that is not relevant to what could have been done to prevent 9/11. The reason we have not suffered terrorism in the US is that we learned some lessons from 9/11 and we have better cooperation between federal agencies and between federal and state agencies and that we now aren't afraid to racially profile muslims since this is where the threat of islamic terrorism can be found.
And because the terrorists now focus their terrorism on Iraq, Israel, and Europe.
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