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search for the murderers and attempt to stop them from attacking
Americans in the future. Instead, U.S. journalists and politicos kicked
off an investigation to find... an American villain--some U.S. citizen who
had "failed to provide the base with adequate security." The tendency
to bicker internally had totally obliterated our ability to look carefully
at outside threats. And we will never be able to overcome threats we
refuse to see.
No one stays on top of the pecking order forever. This is a
difficult lesson to learn. Debate is a necessity. But if it becomes
irrational, violent, and blind to the menaces beyond our borders, it can
doom us. Just ask the Byzantines.
be smashed with an "iron hand." Governmental agencies did not
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