Am I the only one thinking the best response to the Paris attacks is an intelligence response?

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6. True - but as we are finding out more and more

(and most had already suspected), it wasn't a lack of intelligence that allowed 9-11 to happen.

It was because our political leaders had their own agenda.

9-11 justified their agenda to them and to too many others. Had there been true intelligence - not just the security kind, but actual foresight with true knowledge and understanding of the situation in the ME where the I/P situation, among others, remains a constant festering abscess - we would and should have used it instead of the military in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Now we are seeing the consequences of extremely stupid policies dating back at least to 1967, exacerbated a hundred-fold by Bush-Cheney policies.

I disagree, however, with the poster who said in essence that it is too difficult to place intelligence assets in the ME. There are plenty of Middle Easterners/North Africans of different national origins who are also patriotic American, British, French, etc., - even Russian - citizens. It is more a lack of will and sheer laziness -perhaps even racism - on the part of political leaders because human assets need a LOT of trust, training, and support. It is so much easier to use electronic games-playing - only these games are lethal and have a lot of collateral damage - or to rely on Mossad, which often has its own agenda.