Dr. Frank's What's-it

Once again, ladies and gentlemen:

Once again, ladies and gentlemen: the quotable Mr. Warren:

The issue, of course, is would anyone have been able to guess what was planned for Sept. 11, and thus prevent the strikes, if all the little bits had been presented at the same time. I, for one, on the basis of at least some idea how the bureaucratic mind processes information, frankly doubt it. It would take a Sherlock Holmes to amplify all the little dots above the background noise, and then join them together. But the Holmes types shoot-up drugs and work in private digs on Baker Street in the imagination of such as Arthur Conan Doyle. They don't work for government.

On the other, other hand, the insinuation that an American president, even if he was Bill Clinton, would risk the public exposure that he had known about an attack in advance, and raised no finger to stop it, can be left to the Oliver Stone school of late surrealist filmmaking. There will always be people who think that Franklin Delano Roosevelt let the U.S. fleet be destroyed at Pearl Harbour to get America into the war, or for that matter that Jews were behind the attack on the World Trade Centre. There are drugs to help these people, too, but first they must want to be helped.