07-08-2013, 08:39 PM
Quote: My suspicison is that the LIHOP means that there was intel that an attack was in the making... and this was seen as the oppportiunity to respond with overwhelming force and define the new enemy as a tangible real threat to the people of the US.
That's not LIHOP. You seem to be backing away from that position as well in your use of the passive voice. "There was intel" -- that's all? Either someone with command authority like the SecDef says don't do anything or you don't have LIHOP.
And this is why I think you are doing the rope-a-dope on this. To say some authorities decided to Let It Happen On Purpose, is to say it was something akin to an inside job. So you back off and make things vague.
So do you adopt a LIHOP position or have come up with another position?
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