“In the wake of the terror attacks in England, France, Germany and elsewhere, can we finally admit that the war on terror is an utter and complete failure? So if the war on terror has failed, what should we do to stop terrorists?”
For two simple reasons: the travel ban omits the home countries of the 19 identified 9/11 suspects, including Saudi Arabia, now widely suspected to have been complicit in the 9/11 attacks. Also, no citizens of the seven countries in the travel ban have been implicated in any other post-9/11 terrorist attacks.
“The feds have mostly declassified the 28-pages that implicate Saudi Arabia in the 9/11 attacks. Now I want all the redactions removed too, except for any that might mention an undercover U.S. agent. I also want all other files related to potential Saudi involvement declassified. Justice demands this. The evidence revealed in the 28-pages is damning. It’s chilling to think that one of the possible actors in the 9/11 crimes was both a close friend of the President and also a frequent guest in the White House. There’s too much smoke. There appears to be a fire. The American people deserve to know the truth. Did Saudi Arabia murder American citizens?”
https://downsizedc.org/blog/did-saudi-arabia-murder-american-citizens
“Economics professor Guido Menzio (yes, he’s Italian) was taken off the plane, questioned, cleared, and allowed to board with the rest of his passengers two hours later. This is a result of our stupid ‘see something, say something’ culture. As I repeatedly say: ‘If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn’t be surprised when you get amateur security.’ On the other hand, ‘Algebra, of course, does have Arabic origins plus math is used to make bombs.'”
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/05/economist_detai.html
“Even tumultuous military victories can lead to unfortunate unplanned future disasters. Even after one of the most one-sided victories in American history, Desert Storm demonstrated this effect. The impetus for bin Laden to begin his war on the United States, which later became a catastrophic threat to the American homeland on September 11, 2001, was his anger at the U.S. military presence on soil of Saudi Arabia—the Muslim holy land—before, during, and after Desert Storm in the 1990s. One of the U.S. government’s primary reasons for being is to protect its citizens and territory from external attack; on 9/11, it failed to do so from a threat that it helped create and motivate.”
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=8645
“The Saudis, of course, had been an integral part of the anti-Soviet campaign from the beginning. According to one former CIA official closely involved in the Afghanistan operation, Saudi Arabia supplied 40 percent of the budget for the rebels. Al Qaeda, employing a largely Saudi suicide squad, destroyed the World Trade Center. In a sane world, this disaster might have permanently ended Washington’s long-standing taste for mixing Islam with politics. But old habits die hard.”
http://harpers.org/archive/2016/01/a-special-relationship/?single=1
“The sledding ban on the hill was implemented after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The publication covered enforcement of the sledding ban last February, when a group of frustrated parents and cherubic kids briefly slid down the hill as protest (above), before being told to leave by Capitol police. According to a report on The Atlantic, the tug of war between children and the government for use of Capitol Hill grounds dates back to a 1875 law intended to ‘to prevent any portion of the Capitol Grounds and terraces from being used as playgrounds or otherwise, so far as may be necessary to protect the public property, turf and grass from destruction or injury.'”
http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/16/10323328/capitol-hill-sledding-spending-bill-washington-dc
“Despite the passage of 12 months, the actual report, comprising 6,700 pages, still has not been made publicly available. In fact, reading it appears to be prohibited among officials in the executive branch. Nearly a month and a half after the report’s initial release, it had not even been taken out of the package in which it was delivered to the Department of Justice and Department of State, according to government lawyers. Even the organization that was the subject of the report, the CIA, tightly controlled internal access and made ‘very limited use’ of it, as had the Department of Defense, the lawyers said in a court filing.”
“A decade ago, the U.S. government issued stricter standards for state-issued IDs, including drivers licenses. But four states have refused to comply: Louisiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire and New York. The deadline for upgrading is coming up in 2016. If those four states don’t upgrade their ID systems by the deadline, the TSA will demand that residents of those four states use passports rather than drivers licenses to board flights next year. About 9.5 million drivers licenses have been issued in those states, according to government licensing records.”
http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/14/technology/passport-license-domestic-flights/
“The emergence of the exercise in Paris on the day of the November attacks has only heightened suspicions that somehow – directly or tangentially – there is more to the narrative than what has been presented. Of course, those on the Internet who wish to fuel their suspicions can find other such training exercises. Drills, for instance, were being held during the 9/11 terror attacks. Wikipedia further notes a training exercise was being conducted during the July 2005 London terror bombings (often referred to as 7/7). The Madrid bombings, too, were accompanied by a terror drill. In Spain, the drill ended a day before the bombings.”
http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/36669/Ron-Paul-Interventionism-Causes-Attacks/