"Lawmakers pressured President Barack Obama to boost the urgency of anti-terrorism efforts as the Netherlands and Nigeria announced they will start using full- body scanners for passengers."
"Too many people have forgotten the horror of Sept. 11," said top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee and Representative of New York, Peter King.
"The same kind of failures that were there in 9/11 were present in this one," said Tom Kean, former Republican New Jersey Governor and who led the commission that examined the Sept. 11 attacks.
"We had the data. It didn’t get to the right people. Here we reorganized the system after 9/11 and the system is still broken," said former Federal Aviation Administration security chief Billy Vincent.
"The National Counterterrorism Center, created after Sept. 11, 'clearly didn’t connect these dots. We need to understand how that’s possible,'" said homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush.
"I would have thought that Sept. 11 was the ultimate wakeup call. I couldn’t imagine as a country we would backslide, but we did," said Mary Schiavo, an attorney who was the U.S. Transportation Department’s inspector general from 1990 to 1996.
The first thing I must mention is that it is in my belief that absolutely no one who experienced the traumas brought on by 9/11 has forgotten. The event was one meant for the history books and one that cannot be easily forgotten. And though it may have been a bitter "wake-up call", it's been shown through history that in order to take a step forward, many countries have had to experience a "backslide." And as one who has personally plotted retaliation plans (haha...), I don't think it to be an amateur mistake that similar actions to 9/11 passed under the noses of security and surveillance this time around. Normally, one wouldn't assume that the same course of action would be taken due to the risk of predictability. But then again, in assuming the "enemy" wouldn't make the same move twice, (not only are you making an "ass" out of "u" and "me", as Ms. Wei so eloquently puts it) it leaves these same courses of action open to act again. Think about it. If we expect them to not do the same thing twice, and who wouldn't, then the first move they may very well take is the same move as before. Maybe now, though, our government will be able to see and prevent every, if not almost every, course of action this "enemy" may take, even though it took yet another scare to put into action precautionary measurements.
...and is it just me, or does that first quote, "Lawmakers pressured President Barack Obama to boost the urgency of anti-terrorism efforts as the Netherlands and Nigeria announced they will start using full- body scanners for passengers," seem to hold an air of... competition? Then again, what is the world of politics and economics if not one full of competition. ¬_¬
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"reorganized the system after 9/11 and the system is still broken"
I personally feel that people are expecting way too much out of these "precautions". Most people who attempt to do stuff like bomb a plane would not openly do so. If there's a system as there are rules, they can be bypassed and it shouldn't be too much a shock.
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