Pathway to 9/11

[dennisw]

With all of the hubbub regarding the ABC special, Pathway to 9/11, I looked forward to watching. Just to watch something in mainstream media which accurately portrayed the Clinton Administration should have been a rare treat. However after watching both nights, I believe the whole thing was a set-up. If anybody was hammered by this mini-series, it was the Bush administration.

If we’re to believe ABC, several people high up in the Bush administration virtually had several days notice that the attack on 9/11 was coming and knew it would come from hijack airplanes. If this were the only problem, it would not have caused the red flags to rise in my paranoid mind.

They segwayed after the show right into an ABC news program which pointed out over the next hour that we are not much safer then in 2001 and pretty much said the Bush Administration was a group of bumbling idiots. It wasn’t just what they said, it was also their methodology. It was a real slick piece of programming.

I begin to think the whole thing was a setup. Let’s leak that the left is upset with our program then hammer the right under a guise of being very independent, which makes the message more powerful.

By the way, if you read Ghost Wars, you know that they did not hammer the Clinton Administration, but generally let them off the hook.

One of the big complaints I’ve heard recently which was also included in the above programming is that we are not trying to win the minds of the Muslim world. It’s hard for me to reconcile this complaint. The American culture is broadcast throughout the world on a daily basis. I don’t believe a “just say no to Islamic violence” message is going to have much effect on folks who have spent their whole life mired in poverty or attending these extreme Muslim schools.

It seems that before the Middle East can be rebuilt, we must knock down the kingpin. How we can avoid going into Iran is beyond my pointed little head.

[jfhiller]

I had the same suspicions as you've expressed about the set up of Path to 9/11. I don't know that it's the case, but as all the fuss was being made about the film before it was broadcast, I couldn't help but wonder if this was a slick way of ginning up more attention. Perhaps most of the reservations were sincere, but it seems likely that someone was trying to stir the pot. On the other hand, Rush seemed to like it before and after the cuts, which works against that theory.

On the other hand, it's been fun and/or infuriating to listen to the blatant lies coming from the Clinton administration folks. I'm sure some of the men on this forum know some of the people (or ARE some of the people) who had OBL in their sites and didn't have permission to fire. Oh well...

[Team Sergeant]

I don't think the abc movie is worth any serious discussion, not on this board anyway.