Curmudgeonly & Skeptical: Pissants

April 11, 2004

Pissants

How Bush Could Have Prevented the 9/11 Attacks

The memo that has the nation's dissembling fly-bitten malt-worms, improvident media muckabouts, and other Bush inimicals soiling themselves in glee, contains no who,what, where, why, or when. Once upon a time the "Five W's" were the cardinal rule for any journalist worth his, or her, salt. Come to think of it, that still holds true, it's just that so few practice the art. The Five W's are fundamental to intelligence reporting, and since the PBD (mmm, sandwich) contained just the name of Osama bin-Laden, Carl Limbacher outlines how Bush could have used it to prevent 9-11.

Bush rounds up any and all of bin Laden's potential followers inside the U.S., i.e., every Muslim in America, and throws them into internment camps - just as FDR did with Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor.
Since reporters have been able to sneak any number of weapons past airport screeners even with post-9/11 security measures in place, President Bush would have had to close all of America's airports to completely eliminate the possibility of hijackings.
Because Millennium Plot potential bomber Ahmed Ressam tried to sneak across the Canadian border, Bush would have had to seal both the Canadian and Mexican borders until the war on terrorism was won.
For the same reason, Bush must order closed all shopping malls, schools, museums, movie theaters, train stations, large office buildings and other potential high-value targets be closed till further notice.
In order to assure the elimination of the bin Laden threat, Bush would have had to launch a pre-9/11 invasion of Afghanistan. If the master terrorist ran to Pakistan, the U.S. would have needed to invade that country as well.

Rodger Schultz April 11, 2004 06:05 PM |

Comments: Pissants

Since none of your options fix the core issues, a follow-up series of attacks would have been inevitable. Therefore, the only long-term prevention strategy would have included handing over Israel and forcing all Americans to convert to Islam. Either that or nuking every place that might conceivably harbor terrorists.

I wonder how Chirac will explain the inevitable big attack on France?

Posted by DougM at April 11, 2004 06:38 PM

This a redeux of the 12/7 hearings and blame game, all based on striking 20-20 hindsight. Except in 1941-43, people realized that the bulk of the blame lay with Nippon and all her war cabinet, Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy, rather than with FDR and the US government. But... even then, heads DID roll with poor old Short and Kimmel offered up as lambs.

Also, Midway and subsequent a$$ whippings were the real 'payment-in-kind' for 12/7.

The trouble is that nowadays, the Dim-O-cRats don't realize, as the WWII Republicans did, that we are AT WAR. Study the Presidential elections of 1944, and you won't see any of the partisan nonsense that in this elections.

Posted by Trooper John Smith at April 11, 2004 06:42 PM

Exactly, Trooper. AT WAR. For the survival of Western civilization. But where is the call to arms beyond the troops in the field, where, beyond families with members in the service, is the sacrifice and extra effort on the homefront?

I think GWB is making an LBJ mistake in trying to fight a war and continue as usual at home. There is no sense of urgency other than amongst the Bush-haters. I wish he would use the bully pulpit a lot more.

Another thought: If FDR had today's media coverage and attitude, we might have negotiated before Midway to cede Hawaii to Japan in return for peace.

I feel sad every time I read of another one of America's best has died in Afghanistan or Iraq, but we are at WAR. The stupid whiners are apoplectic over 2 dead troops per day, when in WW2 we averaged 300 dead per day for more than three years with less than half the population we have now. I'm very, very worried.

Posted by Dick at April 11, 2004 07:18 PM

Bottom head in that thing up top looks like Carville.

Posted by Spoons at April 11, 2004 08:01 PM

YUP

Posted by Rodger Schultz at April 11, 2004 10:06 PM