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Edited on Sat Sep-30-06 05:33 PM by pinto
for a brief time. Much of Europe, the Mid East, obviously, Africa and Asia are subject to terrorism. We long held ourselves as exempt. I think 9/11 shattered that uniquely American illusion. And, for whatever reasons, Bushco will not recognize that reality.
His Administration has frayed ties with law enforcement and intelligence agencies abroad who have a long history of tracking, identifying and apprehending international vigilante groups. Instead, this Administration has chosen to wage a preemptive "war on terror" and has the gaul to insist that the rest of the world cooperate with that approach.
Sorry, but imho, it *is* a law enforcement issue. Most of the world deals with it as that and has some success under much greater threats than we have seen. 9/11 could have been avoided by listening to the alarms raised by law enforcement agencies, intelligence agencies and the general public for that matter. Giving it up to Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon junta was a remarkable misstep. We will pay for this fiasco for generations.
(on edit) Just after 9/11 a friend called me and said "welcome to the rest of the world." I didn't get it then, but it echoes now.
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