[Oman-L] Conspiracy Theorem

[Glenn Spiecker]

   To the Group,


   I feel that viewing the attacks on Sep.11 as being implemented in concert
with the Pentagon and US military authorities is incorrect. Truly there is
indeed conspiracy afoot but not with the US armed services in that case. The
air defenses here (along with the attacks themselves) simply caught America
‘with its pants down’as there have been no major military threats to the US
outside of an isolated attack from a rouge state since the fall of the
Soviet Union.

   The reasons why are simple:

1.	Money Problems - Budgetary cutbacks and constraints imposed on the US
military in recent years have decreased effectiveness, morale, performance,
and have brought about deleterious effects in many other areas as well. The
morale of service members and (efficient) administrative tasking especially
have suffered, as has intra and inter-service communication of which the
last has been an omnipresent problem since the US has had armed forces.
Recent allocations for improvements and a military-friendly Administration
(along with a Congress and Senate which has recently ‘woken up’ to the sad
state of our military) will serve to greatly enhance and strengthen our
forces and hopefully correct some of its many problems.


2.	Political Oversight - The United States has the best resources in
equipment, personnel and technology, but again, suffers from lack of
coordination that is unfortunately compounded by bureaucratic (political)
oversight. The services and the Federal government are simply too gargantuan
to effectively coordinate and implement large-scale actions involving both
private and public sectors without wasteful replication, fruitless ventures,
mistakes, and other faux pas which are usually comical, but can at times
lead to very serious consequences.


3.	Lack of Sufficient Authority – Related to number 2 in that the
interceptor pilots had no authority to shoot down a civilian jetliner full
of passengers without direct approval from the President of the US. That
mistake has since been corrected.


4.	The Human Factor. Self-explanatory. Any system, no matter how automated
or computerized has a human who ultimately guides or activates it.


   Conclusion? Somebody screwed up. Who to blame? Lots of it to go around,
starting from the US Congress and Senate, the Dept. of State, the
intelligence services for missing the warning signs, and especially the
bureaucrats in the hundreds of thousands of back offices around the US who
routinely ignore commonsense and good judgment and just blindly ‘follow
orders’. These idiots need to be retired and gotten rid of for continuing to
carry out dunderheaded and ineffectual policies like the PL 04-172, which
was unfortunately extended on May 23, 2001 with HR 1954 Report No.107-107,
Parts I and II (sanctions against Iraq and Iran).

   The government of the United States most certainly DOES NOT follow the
‘will of the people’ as I can personally testify to that being true. Both
myself and many, many others have campaigned and lobbied for years to have
the cruel and stupid sanctions lifted and to provide more economic
development aid to the Middle East, but to little or no avail. Everyone with
whom I converse that is familiar with the issue agree that the sanctions are
bad policy-making, and though the vast majority of America speaks out
against keeping sanctions in place, they are apparently completely ignored
by the government.

    Even with the horror and shock of Sep. 11, it appears as if some good
indeed will result as the government FINALLY reassesses its Middle Eastern
policies. Too bad it took such a jolt to do so, but I would ask to be
patient. It will take time to get the prejudiced knot heads out and to
finally bring about policies which reflect both commonsense and the will and
hearts of Americans who very freely give the bounty of their labors to those
in need and want to see peaceful economic and societal development for the
common good of both the Middle East and the world.

    An appropriate quote to this effect is: “If there is to be a brave new
world, than our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it”.
Apparently so ....






Comments on or off the public list are always welcome.

Glenn Spiecker
spieckerg@commexusa.com