| Topic: |
Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"MarkA" |
| Date: |
10 Sep 2003 11:14:17 AM |
| Object: |
Re: The Only Review that Matters |
Patriotboy is Fair and Balanced wrote:
"A 9/11 widow reviews last night's Showtime film about President
Bush's actions on and after that fateful morning.
By Kristen Breitweiser
<snip>
About the writer
Kristen Breitweiser is a 9/11 widow. She is a co-founder of the group
September 11th Advocates and is a member of the Family Steering
Committee for the 9/11 Independent Commission."
http://tinyurl.com/mtxe
--
'And I must say, for some people in the
administration, I'm beginning to think that
blaming Clinton is a substitute for thinking.'
--Sandy Berger
Tim
'Fair and Balanced'
I would like to ask Kristen and her group if they have any idea what the
words "sensitivity" and "specificity" mean? I am not denying the loss
that she personally suffered in the 9/11 attack, but I am genuinely
curious as to how much people really think about how the attack may have
been prevented.
Surely, there is much inter-agency jealousy between different agencies
concerned with our national defense, and the "wake-up call" that 9/11
provided is valuable, if it actually does result in closer cooperation
between different agencies. However, it seems to me that there is a
great deal of talk about what was known before the attack that might
have been used to prevent the attack from occurring, but almost no talk
about how much "background noise" surrounded that information.
It is always easy to recognize relevant data after the outcome is known
(a postdiction), but much harder to recognize data before the fact (a
prediction). In an intellegence community where thousands of clues are
examined every day, was there anything about the 9/11 bombing that
should have made it stand out? How many hundreds of suspected possible
attacks never happen?
We seem to live in a time where people of average intelligence and
education have very little understanding of how information actually
works. Belief in several pseudo-sciences, such as astrology,
faith-healing, etc, is as popular as ever, even among the college
educated. That makes me skeptical of people, like Kristen, who claim
that 9/11 would have been prevented if the right people were doing their
jobs correctly.
MarkA
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