Nothing the "Government" has done should be considered a "mistake" as all governments do as they please, and the outcomes are planned far in advance.
There are no coincidences, only the illusion of such.
The problem with this view is that we see tons of evidence of government actions that clearly have "unintended consequences." In other words, the Evil Mastermind model contradicts the "couldn't take a shit without screwing it up" model of government. And to be honest, I'm not sure which to believe, because they both have the ring of truth to them. Most likely it's more complex than that, with elements of both. Because one cannot deny that LOTS of things the government does are just plain STUPID ... way too stupid to be the work of evil geniuses.
It is probably true that everything the government does, they do with incredible incompetence and total stupidity, too stupid to be the work of evil geniuses. However, doesn't 9.11 just prove that point?
I mean 9.11 was conducted with such idiocy that it is OBVIOUS that there had to the hand of government in there somewhere. People just believe that the governmnent wasn't involved because they said they weren't and so many people are only too willing to believe anything the government says (to quote someone, somewhere on these boards, but I can't remember where I saw it now "if the government told people to go out and buy excrement and feed it to their kids, most people would do this).
I mean the official story is utterly absurd, claiming that the laws of physics were suspended for that day is ludicrous - yet people believe it. The idea that this could have been planned and directed from a cave in Afghanistan is ludicrous, the idea that Mohammad Atta's passport could somehow fly out of a burning plane, pass undamaged through the building, surviving an epic disaster that melted structural steel designed to withstand temperatures of 2000 degrees Fahrenheit, incinerating both planes’ cockpit recorders and black-box recorders, and vaporising the flesh and bones of nearly 3,000 people, and land undamaged on the pavement below, is utterly absurd, the fact that we are expected to believe that a plane with a wingspan of 144ft can fit into a hole 16ft across, is absurd and stupid, now that is a real stretch of the loyalty of all the government "yes men" around, it is also very stupid, ridiculous, idiotic, in fact it is beyond stupid - it is mega-stupid.
And you said that much of what government does is mega-stupid, and all these things were mega-stupid, so?
Seems to fit for me.
The fact that this was all pulled off "successfully" is not the fault of government competence in any way, it is absolutely due to the fact that people are so incredibly obsequious that they'll believe any old dumb tale, and that for everyone who laughed at things like "making cellphone calls from aircraft when that was not possible in 2001", and "... hullo Mom, this is Mark Bingham...." there are so many people willing to call them "callous" and accuse them of "insulting people who have just lost loved ones".
Sure, it was "successful" in the fact that it had the desired result, but here everything was done very clumsily - it could have been done far better.
The stupid, incompetent government didn't successfully pull all this off, the thousands of people who are only too eager to "cooperate" with government, did. Fortunately the number of such people is decreasing by the day as more and more wake up to reality.
Perhaps these people are the real evil geniuses.