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Truth is that our entire government didn't take terrorism too seriously until 9/11. Jimmy Carter screwed up, Reagan screwed up, HW screwed up, Clinton screwed up, and W screwed up (for eight months) with terrorism, and just never made a decisive action on the matter. In 96, we had the chance to nab bin Laden, the Sudanese wanted off our terror watch list and wanted to give him up, but we wouldn't take him, why, I don't know. Like I said, the government just didn't take it seriously, we did have the Soviet Union as our main enemy and anything else just didn't get the attention that, in hindsight, it needed. Then the Soviet Union fell and we thought everything was going to be hunky dory and then we got caught with our pants down. I don't think it's right to put the blame on any one person in our government for the intel failures and the events on 9/11, we were just feeling complacent, and complacency breeds sloppiness, and it's extremely unfortunate and sad that it took the deaths of 3,000 people to revive our diligence and resolve.
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