The notion being that following up on all warnings of equal then-apparent severity, without benefit of hindsight, would have been a prohibitively expensive general policy. Especially since you would not have any information about “terrorism” being the pet problem of the ’00s, rather than, say, an unpaid military officer launching a Russian ICBM, runaway greenhouse warming, a home biologist making superviruses, asteroids, unFriendly AI, etc.
It’s all very well to talk about mistakes that could have been anticipated, yet somehow, they don’t seem to be anticipated.
The notion being that following up on all warnings of equal then-apparent severity, without benefit of hindsight, would have been a prohibitively expensive general policy. Especially since you would not have any information about “terrorism” being the pet problem of the ’00s, rather than, say, an unpaid military officer launching a Russian ICBM, runaway greenhouse warming, a home biologist making superviruses, asteroids, unFriendly AI, etc.
It’s all very well to talk about mistakes that could have been anticipated, yet somehow, they don’t seem to be anticipated.