Lieberman and McCain... at it again!
Dec. 22nd, 2001 02:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpA piece on one of the news shows yesterday morning features Katie Couric speaking with Sen. Lieberman about a bill that he and McCain apparently have introduced, to establish a non-partisan commission to investigate the causes of the September 11 attack, with the purpose of identifying what could have been done to prevent it. Ostensibly, the idea is to make sure nothing like that ever happens again.
It sure sounds like a rational thing to do, unless you understand the way the world works.
That "non-partisan," for example, is likely intended to mean "people who have no axe to grind," but in reality, any such commission would really have nothing but people with axes to grind, both on a partisan level and on a turf level.
Moreover, since hindsight is generally 20-20 or better, there would be no dearth of proposals as to what "could have been done" to prevent a small group of people from coordinating such an attack.
The bill may be good politics, perhaps, but it's a bad idea.
Cheers...
It sure sounds like a rational thing to do, unless you understand the way the world works.
That "non-partisan," for example, is likely intended to mean "people who have no axe to grind," but in reality, any such commission would really have nothing but people with axes to grind, both on a partisan level and on a turf level.
Moreover, since hindsight is generally 20-20 or better, there would be no dearth of proposals as to what "could have been done" to prevent a small group of people from coordinating such an attack.
The bill may be good politics, perhaps, but it's a bad idea.
Cheers...
