An esteemed reader fired back at me:

“Not a shred of supporting evidence for the Goff allegations. You truly believe that we allowed 4 planes to be hijacked and sent into the WTC and the Pentagon to get some oil and knew they were doing this and said nothing? Wow.”

My response:

“You have at times reacted to things I’ve posted in my blog as if you think I’m endorsing them. Please understand that the only thing I’m endorsing is that they’re interesting to read and think about. Although I clearly have my selective biases, I don’t want to be construed as trying to tell people 100% of the time what to believe. FmH is far from having a party line; I hope that’s clear. Please continue your skeptical barbs if you ever think otherwise.”

I knew the Goff piece would provoke some querulous responses; in some ways, he sounds like the zealous conspiracy theorist he doth protest too much that he is not. But read his message; I too have been troubled by the lack of accounting for the amount of time during which the authorities probably knew they were tracking four improbably simultaneous hijackings that morning, by Dubya’s apparent non-plussed response to learning of the attacks, and by the shifting halftruths the administration has been feeding us since. What do other readers think, either about Goff, or about the ‘party line’ at Follow Me Here? [I don’t agree with Fukuyama (below) either, by the way…His argument seemed little better than gussied-up jingoism in 1989, and nothing I’ve seen or heard since including this update changes that….]