Someone in the DOD Memorized Visio For Dummies

Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War - PowerPoint - NYTimes.com

Failure of Imagination

Back when 'hope' meant tax cuts and 'change' meant deregulation.

"I don't think anybody could have predicted ... that they would try to use an airplane as a missile...had this president known a plane would be used as a missile, he would have acted on it." - Condoleezza Rice, 2002

August 6, 2001: Bin Laden determined to strike in US

. . .

"I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." - George W. Bush, 2005.

White House Got Early Warning on Katrina

Why the Levee Broke

. . .

"We all misjudged the risks involved...Everybody missed it -- academia, the Federal Reserve, all regulators". - Alan Greenspan, 2010.

I Saw the Crisis Coming. Why Didn’t the Fed?  

BUT...NO ONE COULD HAVE PREDICTED THAT THE MARKETS WOULD FAIL.

They obviously had an alternative interpretation of the word 'save'.