ominous logic (was Re: [lbo-talk] TIMES letter on standdown)

Brian Siano siano at mail.med.upenn.edu
Sat Jul 26 21:20:55 PDT 2003


On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 23:30:19 -0400, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:


>> Shane Mage fwd'd this letter to the Times:
>>
>>> The Congressional committee does not address the
>>> slow response time to the attacks as they were
>>> occurring. Why did the North American Aerospace
>>> Defense Command's response take so long during
>>> what should have looked like a hijacking in the
>>> first two minutes of these well-coordinated attacks?


>>> The real question to be answered...is not 'Why
>>> didn't we expect them?' but rather 'Who left the
>>> door open for them?'
>>
>> Political commentary for conspiracists is a bit like being on Jeopardy.
>> You're answers must be in the form of a question.
>
> Sometimes a question is just a question.
>
> What answers do *you* have to offer ?

Well, if the question is "Who left the door open for them," my first guess would be "A truly incompetent person who has probably rewritten his suicide note several times by now."

Not the most satisfying answer, I'll admit, but it sort of feels right to me.



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