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" On 9/11 , they were having to literally talk on the phone to each other . In those first few years after 9/11 , spending outpaced planning . One wonders how George Tenet has been able to keep his job , first after 9/11 , and now uraniumgate . " Gershon Baskin , Ph.D ., of IPCRI , whose sad analysis comes down to this : Israelis accept the illogic of the attempted miltiary campaign against the Palestinians because they have been driven into irrationality ; but the Israeli right wing 's leadership , embodied by Ariel Sharon , has coolly calculated that it can occupy the territories , expand settlements , and get away wth it , because the Americans , driven irrational by 9/11 , are so focused on Iraq that they ca n't see that the road to regime changes toward democracy throughout the Middle East starts wth a political peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian confict . ) One can see the benefit that judicious use of this tool could have on a theory holding that : 1 ) although Bin Laden has claimed credit for 9/11 , and 2 ) it is consistent with his avowed aims , and 3 ) there is no obvious benefit to the U.S. in destroying its own financial and military centers , yet 4 ) the Americans themselves committed 9/11 . Clearly , the experts ( i.e. anyone other than the neocons ) knew that Iraq had nothing to do with fighting the brand of terrorism that was resonsible for 9/11 , and that an invasion of Iraq would actually degrade our ability to prosecute any " war on terror . For months after 9/11 , I woke up every morning and did n't want to turn on the TV because I did n't want to see what new and awful thing had been done . " While the former spy chief may or may not bash Rice for 9/11 , the upcoming book gives him an opportunity to comment for the first time on former President Clinton 's decision not to extradite Osama bin Laden to the U.S. when the Sudanese offered to hand him over to the CIA in 1996 . It is the inability of many in the Muslim world to reign in the extremists that are hijacking their religion by denying the universal virtues of human dignity & pluralism and instead preaching jihad and martyrdom - - the principal motivations for 9/11 , the bombings in Madrid , and the bombings in London . Besides , if they really wanted a statue that accurately reflected the racial composition of the New York City firemen who died on 9/11 , they would have to show 33 firemen raising the flag with only one Hispanic and one black . After 9/11 , for example , the new focus on national security prompted him to invest in programs teaching criminal justice . In other words , do n't say " Bush is a coward because he ducked Vietnam " , say " Bush was a coward when he ducked Vietnam , and he proved he is still a coward when he froze up and then ran away on 9/11 , and when he would n't commit troops to get the job done in Afghanistan , and when he did n't level with the American people about the reasons or costs for the Iraqi war , and when he refused to be held accountable or hold anyone accountable for the failures and atrocities that resulted . We are building on 9/11 , which is the equivalent in Spain , in Europe , of 11/3 . I was in New York during 9/11 , so I know something about not feeling safe .