On matters of national security I’d rather there was more foresight and less hindsight.
When the 9/11/01 event shook this nation, there was a lot of hindsight indicators that something was going to happen. Hindsight doesn’t really help unless you learn the lesson it gives you and apply it to future threats, and I don’t mean just the Middle East, either.
As a follow up to one of the links [...]