No - earthquakes are a natural disaster.
Whereas this isn't:
Sep 2000 - PNAC (Project for the New American Century) publish
Rebuilding America's Defenses - Section V entitled "Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force", includes the sentence: "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor"
2001 - the following PNAC supporters are given key roles in Bush's administration:
- Dick Cheney - Vice President
- Donald Rumsfeld - Secretary of Defense
- Peter W. Rodman - Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
- Paul Wolfowitz - Deputy Secretary of Defense
- Dov S. Zakheim - Department of Defense Comptroller
- Robert B. Zoellick - Office of the United States Trade Representative
- Randy Scheunemann - Member of the U.S. Committee on NATO, Project on Transitional Democracies
- Richard Perle - Chairman of the Board, Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee
- Elliott Abrams - Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights, and International Operations
- Richard Armitage - Deputy Secretary of State
- (Plus others)
2001 Sep 10 - Donald Rumsfeld announces that the Pentagon cannot account for 2 trillion dollars
2001 Sep 11 - The two towers are hit by planes and come toppling down, WTC7 collapses due to fire, the Pentagon is hit by 'something'
2003 Mar 20 - The US and a few other coalition forces invade Iraq
At best, the administration knew that 9/11 was imminent and let it happen to further their empire-building ambitions.
At worst, they orchestrated the whole thing.
Random instance of incompetence won't wash with me.