[Blitzgal]

I take the "herding cats" theory when it comes to grand conspiracies. I fully believe that small groups of people are able to achieve evil things, but the bigger the group gets the less likely it is to stay secretive, and the less likely it is to be successful because someone is going to fuck up. So I do not believe that we would be able to secretly install enough explosives to blow up a building without being noticed by its 10,000 workers. I just can't buy it; I'm sorry. Someone would see something.

But I do believe that we had enough intelligence to know in advance that bin Laden was going to attack our country using planes and did not do enough to stop it. That I believe. And I also believe that we callously used the 9/11 attacks as a pretense to invade and occupy a country that had nothing to do with it.