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• Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:22 PM

  9/11 parallels to the JFK Assassination: No closure

  The only thing we're sure about the Kennedy Assassination is that the Warren Commission Report was flawed in major ways and was not the definitive answer that we needed to reach closure. The government's failure to take a harsh look at itself opened a can of worms that can't be put back.

  Similarly, the Bush administration's refusal to cooperate with 9/11 investigations opens the door to all these wild theories. The truth about the attacks seems simple. Applying Occam's Razor to the known facts makes some of the wild theories just too foolish to consider.

  Bush's cowardice and failure to admit his own mistakes before, during and after 9/11 don't prove that the 9/11 Commission was wrong, but they don't provide the definitive answer that we need to reach closure.

  There are still unanswered questions: Who was behind the anthrax attacks? Who made all that money from selling airline stocks short? Why were members of the bin Laden family allowed to leave the country before they could be questioned as thoroughly as many suspects who landed in Guantanamo who we now know are completely innocent?

  We may never know. What should have been a straightforward investigation has been derailed by political ideology. The self-assessment after Pearl Harbor should have been the model. Alas, like the Kennedy Assassination, the government's failure to take a harsh look at itself opened a can of worms that can't be put back.

  —Baron Dave Romm Read Baron Dave Romm's other letters
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