Remembering 9/11,,,We were so unprepared , so trusting, so foolish, so naive , we let our enemies say they were our friends, we did not protect our border that Santa Ana's Army could have ridden across, we did not even have the NYC police and fire departments able to talk to each other on their radios !! What the Hell were we thinking !? No locking secure doors on airplane cockpits !? We spent so much so badly on national security.

Even after the 4 airplanes of 9/11, the FBI and the CIA(even the cia with the cia!!) and the NSA and the DOD and the State Dept. were still having 'political turf wars'; very counter-productive.


Now the Republicans are against 'section D' secure broadband for all our security forces, police fire military political, city county state and federal government.  More Republican obstructionism.  Really ?!


Guess we did not learn enough from this terrible lesson.  Do we really have to go through this ,,, again!!,,, to act responsibly?  


On 9/11, the '911' dispatchers were answering the phones and telling the occupants of both HIT world trade center buildings to "STAY in the buildings!", as if everyone had forgotten the endless evacuations drills in elementary school for fires, earthquakes, and bombs.  There were no overhead fire sprinkler systems working.  The NYFD firemen hauling all those very heavy hoses up those 50-80 levels of stairs could not put the fires out,,, and died trying.  The NYFD also did not seem to use their white dust masks or their bottled air and very expensive face masks to protect their lungs and health, so foolishly macho.  So were the firemen and police and the building security, in not expecting and demanding a quick and efficient total evacuation of both buildings and the surrounding area !?  Did no one but   the architect know these buildings were so prone to collapse when hit by large planes, with vs without fuel!?  The buildings were right next to the water, but not one firefighting helicopter was used(blow up the dam tower).  Not one siphon pickup airplane,,, AND the "emergency" fire doors to the roof were locked!! There was no efficient practiced central command, even for just NYC!  The air traffic controllers did not even know where the 4 stolen planes were!  The Air Force and DOD took too long scrambling  fighter jets!; Our military could not intercept!! and what if it had been a private plane full of fertilizer explosives and terrorists flown in from Canada or the Caribbean? Terrible, embarrassing, and costly top-down lack of leadership and poor cooperation!  Could the Republican President Bush have done any better?


Imagine the courage of those civilians on that flight 93 over Pennsylvania,,, to not just curl up in a corner and cry?


  We were and are still very unprepared.