[JimRed]

...I’ll never forget Condoleeza Rice sitting up there at the commission saying “We never DREAMED someone would be low enough to hijack an airliner and fly it into a skyscraper.”

The non-Mulim western mind does not compute suicidal jihad; it is too foreign to our way of thinking. Now we have been introduced to the concept and will be aware of it, but back then, who knew?

[JimRed]

TYPO REDUX!

That’s non-MUSLIM, of course.

[slowhandluke]

Some western minds do know the problem. In this case, the problem is Condi Rice. Her belief in the niceness of North Korea, and a belief that they would not tell a lie let them keep proliferating nuclear weapons to this day.

It's not like planes crashing into government buildings (via Kamekaze rather than jihadi) wasn't out there in the popular fiction. Clancy also had a plot line about attacking Wall Street. It takes a complete lack of imagination to not check popular fiction plot lines for possible threats when you believe we are in a state of war against terrorists.

Condi Rice could have been told directly about 9/11 plans by Bin Laden himself, and she would have thought it too fantastic to believe, and too inflammatory to bring to Bush. National Security Advisors are supposed to have a bit of paranoia about them. Condi can't seem to believe anything really bad about anybody.