Carlos Lozada
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 4d ago
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So all these years later, I feel there's ways in which we're very much still living in the wreckage of nine eleven.
Um
You know, I
Um five years ago for the 20th anniversary of of 9-11, I I went back and and read the full 9-11 commission report.
And I was I was struck by that.
It was one of four failures they identified.
The others were failures of of policy, of capability, and management.
But the failure of imagination was their first one, was the one they sort of led with.
Um and that's um, as you say, it's about not seeing something coming or
believing that something was too unlikely or fantastical to ever to ever come to pass.
Um but in fact many people did warn, right?
The most famously, um
just a few weeks before the attack, the President Bush received, you know, the the presidential daily briefing and um that was titled Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US.
Correct.
Um and um of course it didn't didn't you know specify how and why, but but certainly there were and and even before that there were others in the FBI and other and other other parts of the government that that that did have their hair on fire that were were warning about this.
Um
There have been many failures since that have been similar failures of of imagination.
Um, mentioned the Great Recession, you know, the the collapse of the housing market, right?
The the notion that that is a thing that could happen.
Um the January 6th assault on the Capitol, right?
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