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Please, answer this theoretical question then Rabbit: What would you do if you were the President of the United States after September 11, 2001?
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Hmmm. Good question. I would probably have immediately launched a blue-ribbon investigation into the causes of the war. I would have fired the heads of the NSA, CIA, and FBI and put in new leaders that were interested in reforming the broken intelligence community.
I would have called Saudia Arabia on the carpet for their role in the 9/11 attacks.
I certainly would not have proposed the Patriot Act. The 9/11 attacks were perpetrated by foreigners with visas, so the visa system needed overhauling, not domestic survelliance.
I would not have gone to war with Iraq, since Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks. If I was going to use the political leverage of 9/11 to do anything, I would have used it to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
I would probably have taken some action against Afghanistan to root out Osama Bin Laden, although I'm not sure that the way we went about it was the right approach. I would have to think a little more about what exactly I might have done better.
I would have made a stirring speech to the american public about how this attack was an attack on the personal liberties and freedoms that the founders talked about in the Constitution, and how we need to hold these freedoms dear. I would have reminded people about the internment camps for Japanese-Americans during WWII, and how we will not repeat those mistakes. I would have reminded people that we are part of the world, and for the deaths during 9/11 to be avenged, we need to make the world a more peaceful place.
Those are some ideas off the top of my head. What do you think?