9/11 Commission cries you didn't do what we told you to!

I was never a big fan of the 9/11 Commission for several reasons mainly because I assumed (correctly) that politicians would use the findings to attempt to assign blame for an event that was not completely preventable. The larger problem with panels and committees of this nature is that they feel they are infallible and that their recommendations should be followed as though they were pronouncements brought down out of the mountains carried by a bearded guy who said a burning bush gave them to him. Yesterday the 9/11 committee whined that their recommendations were not followed to the letter.

"We believe that the terrorists will strike again," the panel's chairman, Thomas H. Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, told reporters in Washington. "If they do, and these reforms that might have prevented such an attack have not been implemented, what will our excuses be?"

What a self serving statement that is. In other words this guy is making sure he is on record saying "don't blame me." The problem I see with that line of BS is that short of taking isolationism to an impossible level with a 50' high perimeter fence surrounding our entire country there is no action we could take that will guarantee no future attacks. Some of their recommendations would have been useful if made prior to 9/11. However, unless the terrorists use the same method of attack again the changes recommended would not add to our security. It is easy to sit on some commission and spend money when you're not accountable to the taxpayer. We elect representatives to make the various decisions regarding appropriating and allocating funds not some appointed commission. When these commissions are appointed in the future, whether dealing with tax reform or whatever, part of their instructions should include an agreement to make their recommendations and then get back under whatever rock they crawled out from under.