by Joseph Carlson
So what can be said that hasn't been said about 9/11? Some believe it was an inside job while others believe that it was are actions overseas and our stance on Israel that started all of this. Well, at about the 350 page mark of the The 9/11 Commission Report I can say that everyone that falls into any of the categories above is probably right.
The problem with something so massive as what happened on 9/11 is that we all want answers. We want someone or something to blame. All that would be to easy though. The one thing I have found while reading this book is that nothing is so black and white and sometimes the problem starts and stops with imagination.
When Osama bin Laden began working with the Taliban and funding them he didn't have the imagination to come up with the idea of using the planes. That was probably KSM or a group of people brainstorming what they could do to get back at the US for, yes, Israel, but really they just were maybe sick of us. And our empire or a many number of things that made them mad.
The problem on the back end is we didn't have the imagination to see that planes could be used as bombs, or, maybe we did or did not as it may or may not have been drafted by so-and-so. The real thing is we couldn't see what would happen after the planes hit the building so we had no plan to respond.
We wrote The Patriot Act and started to hold people in Guantanamo Bay, but really we didn't know what to do with people after that, so they're still there. No I think the real problem is we are lacking real imagination anymore. We can't stop something unless it's already happened and we can't fight people or help them if we don't know what their motive is.
All of us seemed to be stuck in the same struggle. We all just handle it differently. Let's hope the next time isn't as violent. And doesn't cost as many lives.
The 9/11 Commission Report is available digitally and in bookstores.
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