Sooner Or Later, Someone Will Find A Way To Blame 9/11 On Jimmy Carter
Phrase of the week: hindsight bias. (Closely followed by “behavioural finance”.)
This sums up – better than I could myself – a lot of the low-level annoyance I’ve been feeling about the 9/11 commission, or at least its manifestation in the media. Obviously, yes, there are procedural things we can learn from (hopefully in time for the next horrific event, whatever it may be) but I don’t think holding Bush/Clinton to be directly culpable is going to get us anywhere. Except symbolically, perhaps.
