Bush & roosevelt

[Arthur Dent]

The time to prevent 9/11 was over ten years ago. During the last series of highjackings when terrorists were taking control of planes in order to land them somewhere and make demands, a major push was made to mandate the upgrading of all airport security and improve the training of security personnel. This would have cost the airlines millions of dollars each in upgrades. Instead, they sent lobbyests to Washington to get the bill killed so they wouldn't have to spend the money. The airlines did not beleive there was a serious threat since only one or two people would be killed and then the terrorists were captured and the crisis ended. They considered it an acceptibel risk, preferable to spending the money to fix the problem.

Now, they are being given no choice but to upgrade, but are demanding that the governement pay for most of it becasue "they lost too much money after 9/11".


As for FDR vs. Bush. If FDR knew about Pearl Harbor, it was a cold calculated strategy to get an isolationist america to get off it's ass and do what had to be done to protect the lond term interests of the US. Every person who joins the military signs their life away to the government to be spent as the government deems necessary. You can argue the morality of that all day.

If Bush knew 9/11 was going to happen and did nothing, then he is as guilty of murder as Bin Ladin because those were civilians. But, I don't think he did. I don't think anyone who saw the raw information come in was able to make the intuitive leap to figure out what was going to happen. 9/11 redifined what terrorists are willing to do. It fundamentally changed the way terrorists are viewed.