"The process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor."
--The Project for a New American Century, 2000, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, James Woolsey, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Bill Kristol, James Bolton, Zalmay M. Khalilzad, William Bennett, Dan Quayle, Jeb Bush, et al.
bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.
-President's Daily Brief, August 6, 2001
I'm not saying they planned it, executed it, or even understood the full extent of what was coming, but...
In 2001 Bush, Cheney & Co. were sufficiently warned. There was enough intelligence to know that SOMETHING BIG was coming.
And they did nothing. They LET IT HAPPEN.
Because in whatever was to come, they saw opportunity.
Damn them all to Hell.