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[Ron Thigpen <rthigpen AT nc.rr.com>]

Tony Spencer wrote:

> (although if i lived in his time i would be screaming "yeah, i
> remember pearl harbor and your isolationism did nothing to prevent
> it!")



which is pretty much where i'm at with GWB and his crew.

one obvious rational approach to figuring out how to prevent future 
attacks would be to analyze how it was that we failed to prevent the 
9/11 events.  and yet the administration has done nothing but resist the 
commission that is studying this very question.

and this behavior seems to follow couple of larger themes of this 
administration, both of which strike me as being completely ass-backwards:

--this leadership has such faith that it already knows the truth that it 
only wants to hear about science and intelligence (the CIA type) that 
support what we believe.

--a belief policy should be crafted to support desired political ideals.

when i believe the converse of these to be true:

--that the truth will never be fully known, but our best way of 
discovering it is an unbiased review of what science and intelligence 
are showing us.

--politics should crafted to support desired policy ideals

and the whole time they are perpetrating this pudding headed logic on 
our government they seek to sell us this approach as "having integrity 
and vision".  it's fundamentalism pure and simple and it has just as 
corrosive an effect on governance here in the U.S. as it does in any 
"rogue" state.

--rt