Not a Cocoon
Jeff Jarvis, who barely survived the attacks of September 11, rips apart the 9/11 panel’s wrongheaded blame game, and nails the false premise on which it’s based: Not a cocoon.
Underlying the 9/11 Commission’s unrelenting coulda/shoulda/woulda criticism of government action before, during, and after the 9/11 attacks is an unstated — and dangerously wrong — assumption:
That government could and should prepare to protect us against every possible form of attack.
Oh, would that that were possible and true. But it’s neither. This is, instead, a rhetorical trick making it so damned easy to turn the 9/11 attacks into a hammer to attack ourselves.