LTTEs that probably won't be published, part 1

[ProfessorPlum]

At his recent press conference, President Bush stated “You know, we used to think we were secure because of oceans and previous diplomacy. But we realized on September the 11th, 2001, that killers could destroy innocent life.” Reading this statement, I wonder who he referring to when he says “we”. Because “we”, if I remember correctly, lived under constant threat of the thermonuclear annihilation of the human race for about forty years or so, oceans notwithstanding. He couldn’t have been talking about the “we” who remember the first bombing of the World Trade Center, in 1993, and the thwarted attempt to destroy LAX during the millennium celebrations in 1999, despite previous diplomacy. It almost seems like he is trying to implant these simplistic notions in “our” heads. Perhaps when he says “we” he is referring to the group of people whose job it was to protect us even before 9/11, the ones who were receiving intelligence briefings entitled “Bin Laden determined to strike in US” but who somehow failed to “realize” that “killers could destroy innocent life”.

We'll see what happens.

[jilln]

1. that's pretty much what i was thinking while smirk was saying that (nt)