9/11 as a Deep Political Event

[Charles Drago]

Continuing this thought experiment: Assume the entire 9/11 event really was just 19 terrorists with box cutters. The entire USG response was one of embarrassment and covering up blundering on the part of all major aspects of the government tasked with protecting the country. Would this be a deep political event?

I'll go along with your assumption -- even though doing so gives me a violent case of the heebie-jeebies.

In this example, what you call "blundering" no doubt would rise (sink?) to the level of criminal malfeasance. Thus the act of repressing the record of said malfeasance would constitute a deep political act.