Among all the criticism of the White House regarding 9/11, I have yet to see the editorial or Op/Ed piece claiming that if Al Gore were President, all this never would have happened.

I wish the critics would get over themselves. We're all human beings, we can't plan for every event and sh*t happens. Even if someone had planned perfectly for the use of one hijacked plane as a missle, there could have been as many as ten. Then what? What if the planes' targets were closer to their take-off points and there couldn't be enough time to scramble F-16s regardless? Even the best laid plans can be circumvented depending on wholly unpredictable events.

There's a reason why no one can promise there won't be another terrorist attack no matter how we re-organize our defenses. It's because it's impossible as long as there are people willing to commit an attack. All we can do to try to dissuade the terrorists by killing as many of them as we can. The second someone picks up a rifle and swears their allegiance to Allah and shouts "death to the infidels", they are fair game. That certainly wasn't our policy before 9/11.

My mini-rant is over.