Steve, I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile. All of this reporting about hijacking was about traditional hijacking. You take a plane -- people were worried they might blow one up, but they were mostly worried that they might try to take a plane and use it for release of the blind Sheikh or some of their own people.
January 30, 2006, NYT reports:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acknowledged Sunday that the United States had failed to understand the depth of hostility among Palestinians toward their longtime leaders. The hostility led to an election victory by the militant group Hamas that has reduced to tatters crucial assumptions underlying American policies and hopes in the Middle East.
"I've asked why nobody saw it coming," Ms. Rice said, speaking of her own staff. "It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse."
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Ms. Rice pointed out that the election results surprised just about everyone. "I don't know anyone who wasn't caught off guard by Hamas's strong showing," she said on her way to London for meetings on the Middle East, Iran and other matters.
George W. Bush, September 1, 2005:
"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."
Dick Cheney, June 19, 2006, as part of a response on whether the U.S. is winning the "war on terror:
"I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we've encountered,"
They never anticipate. They don't plan. They spend the lives of young Americans in their little fantasy world, and never look back. The word "competence" has been tainted by its use by Michael Dukakis eighteen years ago, but perhaps it's time to bring it back, becuase this bunch hasn't got a clue -- and then uses the "no one could have anticipated..." excuse every time they fuck up.
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