It all started 96 hours after 9/11

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/17/david-hare-decade-9-11

'Over chicken noodle soup, fried chicken and mashed potatoes, began to yield to the dazzling temptation of deliberately pursuing the wrong suspect. Hey, said the Americans, Let's Look Away'

David Hare

In theatres up and down the country, it used to be that anyone, whatever their job, was pulled magnetically towards the stage. All through the day they would find themselves venturing down into the auditorium. They would casually try to catch a glimpse of the actors, a glimpse of the action, because that was where their job was rooted. Today, 10 years into the new century, theatre workers, like the rest of us, sit staring at computer screens all day, and sometimes all night. Hardly surprising, then, that this has been the decade of Looking Away.

"Human beings have always found that life has a curious way of slipping away from them. You reach the end without feeling you've done anything you meant to. For that reason, I'm reluctant to speak ill of Looking Away. I do a great deal of Looking Away myself. Who knows? It may be the only way of getting through. But our inclination to Look Away is the reason we invented professionals. Their job, after all, is to Look At. A doctor is there to examine things you prefer to ignore. ":kick:

Rumsfeld only took a couple of hours to start pondering how to pin this on Iraq.