We reacted as though it was skill, but 9/11 was a fluke, Al Queda was lucky. If you think about all of the things that had to go right just to fly the planes into the WTC, not to mention the fact that they had no way of knowing the buildings would collapse, you have to conclude that it was pure luck (combined with our relaxed counter-terrorism measures). It’s like any great sports upset – play the game 100 times, the underdogs win one, it just happens that our universe contained the one. Same with 9/11. Replay that day 100 times, 99 times something goes wrong at the airport, they get caught. The hijackers just happened to get lucky the one time. And that’s why nothing’s happened since – they didn’t even mean for it to be as large a victory as it ended up being, the towers collapsing was just gravy for them. They’re incompetent cave-dwellers who happened to have the break of a lifetime. And that’s the thing about lucky breaks – they aren’t repeatable.
