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The Real Way George W. Bush Didn't Keep Us Safe

As Donald Trump and Jeb Bush squabble about whether Bush's brother, President George W. Bush, could have prevented the attacks and whether he made us safer, we may be losing sight of the obvious.

We can't seriously think that the deaths of nearly 3,000 civilians constituted anything but an epic failure, at all levels of government. As my colleague Peter Bergen notes in riveting detail, there is extensive evidence that George W. Bush's lack of focus on the growing threat, despite signs that Osama bin Laden was planning something epic in the United States, favors Trump's assertion: 9/11 was preventable. Trump may be right.

But he is also so wrong. On so many levels....

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Kayyem, Juliette. “The Real Way George W. Bush Didn't Keep Us Safe.” CNN, October 20, 2015