9/11 was preventable.
Basically just a worthless statement.
Almost anything man-made is preventable.
The US Civil War, WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, "were preventable".
Really all wars "are preventable" if one side just surrenders.
To a degree many health problems in non-elderly are "preventable" or can be postponed.
Most plane crashes "could have been prevented".
Ted Kennedy "could have prevented" a girl drowning.
President Truman could have "prevented" mass death in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Obama "could have prevented" US deaths in Libya this week.
Obama "could have prevented" more US soldier deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Obama "could have prevented" not following thru on promise to close Gitmo.
The point being that in 20/20 hindsight most anything "could be prevented"
but there are sometimes valid circumstances & consequences that prevent prevention.
9/11 could have also been probably prevented had Bill Clinton killed Bin Laden
when had the chance.
Obama talks lots about the mess he inherited.
Bush inherited an
Al Qaeda mess from Clinton who instead of killing Bin Laden
preferred performing sex acts with interns in the White House while his wife and child
were on trips. Of course Bush unlike Obama didnt spend his first term whining about
what a terror threat mess Clinton left him and the country in by not taking out Bin Laden and others when he had the chance.