a rightly timed pause

The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.

September 11, 1973 - Augusto Pinochet led a coup against the democratically elected government of Chile to establish a military dictatorship that would last for 15 years.

September 11, 1998 - 25 years after the coup in Chile, the National Security Archive declassifies US government documents “detailing decisions and operations to undermine the election of Salvador Allende in September 1970, to promote the military coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power, and support for the military junta in the early years of its rule.”

It is revealed that orders from Henry Kissinger channeled through the CIA to its station chief in Santiago, Chile were:

“It is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup.”

September 11, 2001 - Coordinated airliner attacks result in the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York, destruction of a portion of the Pentagon in Washington DC, and a plane crash in rural Pennsylvania.

Typically in the United States, when disasters of a large scale occur, Congressional chairman are appointed to investigate the events as quickly and thoroughly as possible in order to ascertain the facts such that future tragedies may be averted.  Listed below are the number of days between historical events and presidential appointments of a chairman to oversee the investigation.

Sinking of the Titantic - 6 days

Japanese Attacking Peark Harbor - 9 days

JFK Assassinated - 7 days

Challenger Space Shuttle Explosion - 7 days

9/11 Terrorist Attacks - 411 days

And the chairman appointed by George W. Bush 411 days after the 9/11 attacks was none other than Henry Kissinger, the same man who masterminded, orchestrated, and led the cover-up of the overthrow of a democratically elected Chilean government for the Nixon administration in 1973.

On a side note, Donald Rumsfeld served in Nixon’s Cabinet at the time with Dick Cheney serving as a member of Rumsfeld’s staff.  Paul Wolfowitz had just finished his PhD, writing his dissertation on nuclear weapons in the Middle East, prior to joining the Nixon administration in the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.  And George H. W. Bush was appointed by Nixon as the US Ambassador to the United Nations.