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U. S. Security: A Problem of Information of Dissonance

Author Paul Morse, This image is a work of an employee of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, taken or made during the course of the person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.

The United States have prided itself to possess one of the most if not the most significant security establishments in existence. It is said to be so secure that it is virtually invulnerable to any and all forms of attack. It has many structures and mechanisms for national, domestic and external security. However, the lesson taken from the September 11 attacks were that the weakness of the U. S. system was not in its structures but it is in its receptivity to the information it had access to.

What is Dissonance?

It is not clear as to whether clues as to the pending 9-11 attack were ignored due to the lack of substantial material to back it. Perhaps it is that the myth of U. S. invincibility that has distorted the point of view of the U.S. including its own security agencies they are deluded to think that such an attack is unlikely. This phenomenon is known as information dissonance. When one is insensitive to the information despite its obvious merit and reliability is acted upon or worse no precaution is taken to at least objectively deal with it. This information is dissonance. The 9 – 11 commission cited that the U. S. had already tall – tell signs of such an attack but did nothing. What followed was a rude awakening much like the U. S. got when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

U.S Has Added New Features to their Security

In a world which is built around the improbable, impossible and unthinkable the healthy and sane attitude would be to treat most if not all pieces of information as to national security as alarming and reliable. Not just set it aside and say it is nothing. Recently it was reported that the United States have currently a significant number of additional features as to their security including a new secondary system to support and backup the main system. But the question is will this system be a breakthrough and deviation from the flawed system that failed to respond to the 9 – 11 threat before it was actualized.

No Country is Invincible or Immune to Attack

The answer to this run as part of the United States background its cultural and social setup which indirectly propagate and make even as part of policy. Culture and Social circumstanced of a country is dynamic and the latter’s efforts and processes must adapt and shift to meet the demands of the 21st century. The inability to recognize and come to terms with reality will often result to catastrophe. The rule is this no country is invincible and immune to attack. The threats are real and if they are not then at least you erred on the side of caution.

Matters of national security must always be a thing of concern and to an extent a subject of paranoia. New or old security system so long as there is information dissonance for whatever reasons the threat will always be actualized.

September 10, 2010 - Posted by Rus Welhelm Jedi | Miscellaneous | 9 – 11 commission, information dissonance, national security, paranoia, U. S. system