The terrorists studied the structural damage caused to the World Trade Center and went over their mistakes. We didn’t. The result of this miscalculation was 9/11.

“Oh, no! Not another 9/11 article,” you’re thinking. Yes it is, unfortunately.

But this is an issue that is too important to simply forget. Believe me, the enemy is sorting it out in detail to see where they made mistakes and could do better and so should we.

For once I’m not going to bring partisanship into the debate. This goes beyond that. The important thing is not about whom to blame.

The left blames President Bush and the right blames former President Clinton. Maybe this matters, maybe it doesn’t. But let's not forget the important issue: how do we prevent it from happening again?

In the aftermath of 9/11, it became painfully obvious that the 1992 bombing of the World Trade Center was just a dry run. Whether this was intentionally the purpose that the terrorists had for the ’92 attacks is irrelevant. This is what it turned into.

The terrorists studied the structural damage caused to the World Trade Center and went over their mistakes. We didn’t. The result of this miscalculation was 9/11.

Looking at how much our economy was affected by 9/11, what if 9/11 was just a dry run for what is next to come? Whether the enemy had intended the economic impact that they did — and I believe that they did, given their choice of primary target — the result is that they did impact our economy.

In fact, I don’t think most people realize how close to economic and political collapse we were.

Now they are studying the structural damage done to our economy and are going over their mistakes. Are we doing this? If we’re not, the result could be complete economic collapse the next time around. That’s right, we could go the way of the Soviet Union.

Those Americans who complain about how evil our country is will change their tune when they have to fight for a loaf of bread.

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