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Review title: Long on politics, short on usefulness
Product review: Like any blue-ribbon public inquiry done in the wake of a major disaster, the point of this comission was not to seek answers, but rather to (1) use the forum for public vendettas and (2) convince the public that Congress was Doing Something. The public hearings were used to find scapegoats, and the book itself, being a product of two parties with equal say and a strong desire not to have their actual errors in print, is a selective collection of mea culpas, hand wringing, and a promise that everything will be better if we just make these few massive structutural changes.One only has to look as far back as the Challenger disaster panel to see how little actual good comes out of these projects. There were similar inquiries after Pearl Harbor, Watergate, the Tet offensive... the list goes on and on. And as in these past instances, the full story will only be told by historians once the principle actors are all dead.
