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Originally Posted by DieselAddict
As tankdriver hinted at, the Germans were not pushing for war like the US and British governments were, quite the opposite. What I was really talking about is how Europe has been able to infiltrate and round up suspected terror cells on its own territory. They seem pretty good at that and that should be our priority as well. Only a retard would truly believe that invading an unrelated foreign country will somehow keep the terrorists that attacked us from attacking us again, yet this was the logic when going into Iraq. I'm not making any armchair quarterback decisions after the fact here. I was strongly against the war before it even started and I was very disappointed with how the majority of the American public let itself get so brainwashed, even labeling anti-war people as unpatriotic... truly disgusting.
Clinton certainly shares some of the blame for not dealing with Al Qaeda more effectively sooner, but the bottom line is that it happened 9 months after Bush's inauguration and he had plenty of time to start any intelligence reforms that were needed. He didn't even try and he resisted changes and inquires into what happened even long after 9/11 to hide his true incompetence.
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I'm unclear to which time period you're talking about. Post 9/11 there have been many terrorist plots uncovered both here and abroad. Sometimes it's British Intelligence, as in the case of the airliners plot, sometimes it's American Intelligence. Usually in all cases it's a joint effort. Prior to 9/11 we were very reliant upon foreign intelligence as we had abdicated ours.
You still seem to think that a robust intelligence program can be implemented in a few months. I would suggest to you that we'll be several decades getting back the abilities that we lost during the 90's. One of the dumbest things we did was destroy our intelligence gathering abilities after the demise of the USSR. It was further compounded by administrative walls placed between agencies.