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Once again, Rudy proves that the only thing he can run on is the fear of another 9/11.
His comments about taxes (or anything other than terror) will continue to get him in deep voo doo.
(Or is that “doo doo?”)
Economic wisdom from the candidate who planned to make his big push in Florida, and who has now RUN OUT OF MONEY!!!
(Just the man we want in the White House as the country falls into a recession!!!)
Rudy’s better off talking about how he’ll keep us safe from terrorists. Oops…wasn’t he the man in charge when the Twin Towers were attacked?
And who never got around to filling in that hole in the ground?
Steve: Your first two observations are likely relevant.
The third paragraph hardly rises to the stuff you’re capable of. No one, but no one, was ready for that morning, least of all the people of NYC or it’s Mayor. This is coming from someone who heard that jet fly over the roof of his office building, and was standing at a window watching the scene, as the South Tower exploded.
As for Ground Zero, it is unlikely that even King Solomon would have had the wisdom to resolve all the issues complicating the recovery of that site in any less time than it has presently taken.
Point taken. I should have been more precise in that third paragraph:
Rudy wasn’t responsible for the attack, of course, but he WAS responsible for failing to supply the Police and Fire Departments with radios that could communicate, especially after the first Trade Center bombing EIGHT YEARS EARLIER!
And for putting New York’s Emergency Command Center in WTC Building 7!
He has ZERO credibility as a crisis/preparedness manager.
Bureaucracies are notorious footdraggers. They suffer from ‘squeeky wheel syndrome’, and respond only after a crisis. Example: Not only your citation of the failure in communications upgrading for the NYC services, but how long the warnings that the flood management projects on the Mississippi River were placing New Orleans in dire straits in the event of a major hurricane. That goes back several administrations.
With respect to the placement of the Emergency Command Center, I would give that one pause. I suspect that, given all the analyses, it was considered to be the most secure and stable location even in the face of the 1093 event. The possibilty of an event causing the total failure of the buildings, right down into the sublevels was likely beyond anyone’s imagination.
The Federal Government has historically located such facilities below ground, outside and a considerable distance from center city. Common sense and hindsight makes that the better choice in this case, and gives the right to anyone who might have been an advocate of same during the planning stages. Of course, we likely are never to learn who those ‘heroes’were.
I don’t accept the excuse that some things were “beyond anyone’s imagination.”
We have a right to expect senior officials responsible for our safety to use their imaginations and ANTICIPATE THE UNEXPECTED…for example, that terrorists might want to hijack a plane (something they’d done before), but this time fly it into the tallest buildings in our largest city!!!
Then, when it was learned that some Middle Eastern men were taking flying lessons in our country, but were NOT concerned with learning how to take off and land (!), someone MIGHT have connected the dots and MIGHT have prevented the attack!!! And prevented the city’s Command Center from being placed on the TWENTY-THIRD FLOOR of one of those tall buildings!
Dammit, that’s what we pay these idiots for!
Giuliani may have provided the city with moral support AFTER the attack on 9/11, but I stand by my charge that he failed his responsibility to provide proper communication equipment to the first responders and to place the Command Center in the most secure location.
Your premises are sound and excuses are not being offered nor were your accusations dismissed.
The flaws in the building design with respect to insulating the crossbeams against heat
have been revealed. The building was designed to stand in sustained high winds and resist the impact of an aircraft, but not the inferno of burning jet fuel which followed.
The issues raised in paragraph’s two, three, and four again speak to government bureaucracy and the failure of critical agencies to share information, coordinate their activities to a common purpose, anticipate and prepare for as many worst case scenarios as possible.
These kinds of behavior transcend the past eight years. I expect it will continue as we go forward as well, not withstanding who sits in the Oval Office, or who has the majority in Congress, and at all levels of government be it Federal, State, or Local.
I call it “Titanic Syndrome”, the kind of complaceny that Walter Lord made the theme of his book “A Night To Remember”. Man has trumphed over nature and all is well with the world. When you’ve been a student of the event over the better part of 50 years as I have, and see how all the pieces came together, you come to the conclusion that April 15, 1912 was an inevitability, just an accident waiting to happen. That it did so, on the occasion of the first crossing is poetic justice. A better script could never have been written. Pity so many suffered and were lost.
Steve: As a post-script to my observations in my 7:pp.4…I give you the recent attempt by the ‘eminent’ Governor of New York to make illegal aliens eligible for NYS driver’s licenses.
Seems to me that the expectations of Mr. Spitzer should fall right in line with your 6:pp.2. That’s one.
I have no doubt that there are a host of others, subtler, and currently in play, that we have yet to learn of, until……………