UNANSWERABLE
The woebegone G. Walker administration plays the fear card for (one hopes) the final time.
The martial drumbeat repetition of “kept us safe” is absolutely a wide-open question, particularly in terms of assigning cause and effect.
But, as they brought it up and are so insistent on inserting it into the zeitgeist, it leads ye old scribe to mention the obvious rejoinder:
Had Al Gore been inaugurated in January of 2001, would the deadly criminal acts of Sept. 11 of that year have been successfully carried out?
Both positions are ripe for fulmination (and speculation). Both are essentially unprovable fully in any concrete sense.
But if the former is posited, the latter must needs follow as a part of the context of having an administration in place before, during and after that point in time.
