Is Another 9/11 Inevitable?
In short – yes.
by Justin Raimondo
It was shocking, hearing CIA director Michael Hayden tell Tim Russert on Sunday morning that we’re wide open to another 9/11-style terrorist attack. Al-Qaeda, he said, is turning to operatives who “look Western” and “wouldn’t attract your attention if they were going through the customs line at Dulles with you.” These new recruits, he averred, “would be able to come into this country … without attracting the kind of attention that others might.”
Let’s see if I understand this correctly: all one has to do in order to get into the U.S. is to “look Western” and not stand out too much in the line at Dulles.
Seven years after 9/11, we’re still just as vulnerable as ever to another devastating blow such as the one Osama bin Laden delivered on that fateful September morning. I’ve often joked that the sheer force of the explosions in New York and Washington tore a hole in the space-time continuum and hurtled us into a Bizarro World alternate universe, where up is down and the laws of reason and logic are similarly inverted. Nothing else explains our present course, our crazed foreign policy, and our utter helplessness in the face of a very real threat to the continental United States. (more…)