The failure to stop 9/11 was a catastrophe. But even bigger mistakes were made in its aftermath

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"The September 11 2001 terrorist attacks were unlike anything the world had
seen before.

For America, and the watching world, September 11 (or 9/11) seemed most like a
Pearl Harbour moment – a devastating surprise attack by a distant enemy that
demanded a response.

But here the distant enemy was not a nation state in the middle of war, it was
a ragtag collection of rebels living in mountain hideouts, long underestimated
and widely misunderstood.

It took Hollywood movies to convey the horror of Pearl Harbour. But hundreds of
millions around the world watched, via live satellite TV feeds, in disbelieving
horror as a fully laden commercial aircraft slammed into the first World Trade
Centre tower in New York. Hundreds of millions more saw the second tower hit,
then witnessed both massive skyscrapers collapsing faster and more completely
than seemed possible.

At the time, this felt like a moment that changed everything – a hinge point in
history on which so much would turn. Twenty-five years later, that devastating
intuition has been confirmed through a cascading series of grim events and
tragic mistakes."

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics