re: #128 Obdicut

Or “Did Bush Allow the 9/11 attacks to happen?” Which I think is even more apropos.

For the record, I think that Bush deemphasized counterterrorism before 9/11, but in no way can be accused of letting the attacks happen. I do think we could have prevented them, but there is no scenario in which I believe Bush would have allowed them to happen. I think his focus was simply not on terrorism before 9/11.

Well not really. Whose was? Al Queda had been attacking us since the Afghan/Russian wars, for some 20 years. We got pretty wise about it by the time Clinton was in power and he chased bin Laden all over the place. So did Bush after the fact, although he could have focused more on Afghanistan.

I don’t think we should be relying on hindsight and there’s far too many people doing that.