Reaction time.
“[T]he President of the United States did nothing for 18 minutes,” according to William Manchester, a historian describing President Franklin Roosevelt’s immediate reaction to the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.
Columnist Diana West dug out that historical nugget. (*)
And so ends the canard about how George W Bush is somehow blameworthy for being stunned for a few minutes when he first heard of the 9/11 attacks in a schoolroom in Florida.
Onward to the real issues.