What failures? Detail them.

The 9/11 rescue attempts was clearly the best and most heroic of human behavior. Human behavior at its best. Period. No question.

Only about 2800 people lost their lives after two giant jet planes crashed into the tallest buildings in NY within a half hour of one another.

This is such typical academic bullshit. The vast majority of academics can't write for shit and have the intellectual creativity of slugs, yet they are the first ones to whine and complain. Basically a Ph.D. is nothing more than a degree in bitching and moaning. And it is the same for the a-holes on the 9.11 commission. To say that the response was no better than the Boy Scouts (who would be prohibitted from helping anyways because they are religious and don't accept gays), is absolutely abhorent. Who does that little shit think he is. And those effing 9/11 families. I have sympathy for most of them, but those jerkasses that boo Giuliani and nothing more than a sack of loser shit. Try being a little thankful for a change.

Sorry for the language but I'm really pissed off by this. I'm sick and tired of the incessant whining I hear all the time.

I didn't finish my thought from above. About 2800 people died in the WTC attacks. Estimates were that about 50,000 people inhabit those two buildings at any given point in time. That is about 95% success rate at rescuing people; and don't forget that many of the lives lost were people staying in the building to rescue others. Most losses were either at or above the hit line (almost impossible to get at) or the firefighters trying to save them.

So now, tell me what obvious failures you see?
I'm so sick of this bullshit.

I feel sorry for all the relatives of those killed that day--but their are a few--who need to get into some serious therapy because they aren't dealing well three years after with their grief--or a couple, need to sit down and shut up--they are helping keep this 9/11 political circus going in a summer where I predict you will see many more grieving relatives--we need to get into teh full-time business of stopping the next attack(s)

Gee Lemon- Don't hold it inside.. Tell us how ya really feel. ;-)

John,

All I am conceeding is that, by definition, there were no doubt some things that could have been done differently in security, rescue efforts, procedures, whatever. Only in the sense that nothing is done perfectly. As such, it is possible that any given fireman who died might have been saved if X had been done rather than Y. Therefore it is always possible to criticize. Of course, after the fact such criticism is always easy.