Originally Posted By: Ed Pirie
As far as 9/11 goes, I think the Bush administration was basically drifting that first summer, sort of finding their "sea-legs" so to speak.


I think a lot of people have forgotten that during that summer, there was a crew of Naval aviators, along with a top secret equipped aircraft, that were being held by the Chinese. Although an administration should be able to handle more than one crisis at a time, that was a major distraction that is never brought up anymore.