One of the ironies to calling this "Israel's 9/11" is that we were told after 9/11 we should respond to "terror" like Israel does, with the implication that Israel's policy of brutal revenge works.

Yes. I was in a meeting at AIPAC 2 days later, 2 blocks away from the Capitol: “now you know what it feels like to live in Israel.”

I think in terms of intelligence or security failure it's so much worse. Bush hadn't been President for 20 years and he hadn't spent those years promoting himself as Mr. Security.