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that's why generally 11-year-olds aren't nuclear physicists, politicians, rocket scientists, secret agents, foreign policy experts etc.
But...let's take 9-11 at face value: apart from all the general warnings, military exercises, intelligence material etc they didn't actually know the flight numbers on 9-11 or the exact plan of the hijackers.
So, you're the president sitting in a classroom and you've just heard "America us under attack". What you do?
I wouldn't sit there listening to kids reading about a goat for 20 mins.
The chief of staff would politely tell the children that the president has to attend to some other business. If there was a way to force a news blackout on the reporters at the scene I'd do that too until I knew what was going on.
Then I'd say "get me TV's tuned to all the news channels and half a dozen phone lines - I want to know WTF is happening and what are we gonna do about it?".
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