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“Not the first time al-Qaeda attacked the US, won’t be the last. Wake up.”

Your preaching to the choir; you just don’t know it, because you still think your questions mean that someone CAN WITH CERTAINTY point to some individual to definitely hold responsible. But all your questions ARE NOT EVIDENCE of WHO, with certainty, such individuals are.

As you and I both agreed, Tenant is one person who could have shouldered the public responsibility for the intelligence errors. Besides Tenant, and possibly Jamie Gorelick (extension of the intelligence vs law enforcement disconnect) I don’t know of any smoking guns with definite individuals names engraved on them.

[Sometime in the 1990s, my local dentist was struggling with a difficult root canal job on one of my teeth. The canal itself had a bend in it. He had been attempting to complete the procedure with at least three changes of the drill bit he was using. He was being very careful and diligent and seeking the best result for me. At one point he said: Whoops, and stopped the procedure. I asked, with my numb mouth, what was the problem. He said the drill bit had broken off inside the canal. In order to retrieve it, and save the tooth, it would require oral surgery; that would have to be done elsewhere and by someone else. He left the decision to me. I thought the tooth was not in good enough shape to save; more than a simple filling would be needed to make it whole again. As I told this tale to friends and associates shortly after it happened, many wanted me to sue the dentist, on a claim of either negligence or some form of malpractice, for “costing” me the loss of the tooth. I never had and never accepted such a thought. I was there. I know what happened and sometimes its no ones “fault”; shit happens.]

[In 2007 I was in a life-threatening accident, from a huge tree that decided to die at the instance I was the only person in the world in its path. Besides the concussion, the split in the top of the skull, the cervical disk and spinal injuries, as well as other physical injuries, I had to deal with neighbors (and a few friends) who thought I should sue my town (the tree was formerly standing between the sidewalk and the curb). Lawyer friends told me it was a nearly impossible “act of G-d” case (who coulda, shoulda, woulda known it was going to fall at that time). For myself, I would respond to my neighbors by telling them to just let me know by how much I should cause their taxes to go up, and I’d be happy to accommodate them. Shit happens.]

I will never be a rich man and may always have some debt from my accident, but I sleep well at night knowing I have not tried to make myself feel better by looking to find some specific “culprit” to blame my accident on. I have never even once had the anxiety of entertaining the question with any great seriousness. Life is too short.

Looking for blame is 99% trying to satisfy our emotions, not obtaining truly meaningful answers. This is evident from how relieved we are simply because a culprit is named, and how much more important that sense of relief is (a false sense of relief) than the truth or certainty of true evidence to convict the culprit.

Keep chasing that phantom if you need to. Most of us don’t. Most of us are quite satisfied with blaming the terrorists.