^^^ I'm curious too.

Oh, I think they all have a ring of truth on some level. Mostly because real life doesn't wrap up all neatly and there's no Horatio Caine to pull off his sunglasses and act poorly before the final credits. There are holes and inconsistencies and bad memories. People under pressure say oddball things off the cuff. And nature abhors a vacuum. It's also hard to stomach that a bunch of 8th Century minded Bedouins could fuck things up so badly. Just like it's tough to stomach that an unbalanced nobody loser could kill a President. But that's who does that kind of thing.


Sometimes, actually most times, things are as they appear. What did W say on South Park? It was the most perfectly planned operation ever, ever. How many people would have to have been involved in any of the theories beyond a bunch of pissed off Arabs? 100? 500? 1000? Yet 10 years later not a single one has gotten a little queasy about it and called up Alex Jones. Not one.

My seat was 3000 miles away, and I wish yours wasn't so close. But it doesn't take a front row seat, or a degree in engineering, or anything beyond common sense to know that what we saw was what we saw.

It was a rough day all around, but I have to admit that the history junkie in me won't let me stay away from the coverage. It was the defining moment of the last 50+ years. If nothing else I owe it to my kid to tell him about it the way my dad told me about Pearl Harbor and JFK.