CHAPTER 11
FUTILITY
The United States was a nation under assault.
Unfortunately for the country all the blood spilled appeared to be due to terrorism. This fact made it extremely difficult for the powers that be – or those powers that remained after the first bloody spasm of attacks, that is – to put it all together sufficiently enough to react with anything resembling speed.
Government rice bowls were still rice bowls, after all, and they had to be jealously guarded. The various three-letter national security agencies that still had a functioning command and control structure were busy fighting each other for primacy in responding to the attacks. The end result was a scattered and largely uncoordinated immediate response by both the federal government and the states. Governors activat
