Al Qaeda

9/11 – My Beginning (Repost)
ecthompsonmd September 9, 2026

I first published this approximately 15 years ago. I’m old, and so is my blog. Do you remember any of this? I’ve spent most of today reading and reflecting on my education over the last decade. I don’t remember the first time I heard the word Al Qaeda. I don’t remember the first time I ever heard the name Osama bin Laden. I do remember where I was on September 11, 2001. I had been up most of the night taking care of trauma patients, and I was sleeping in that morning. The phone rang, and it was my mother-in-law. She

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We Need More Brain Power
ecthompsonmd June 21, 2026

I have been re-reading Senator Bob Graham’s book, Intelligence Matters. It was about the intelligence failures of 9/11. Re-reading this book reminded me of how unprepared we were for a terrorist attack here in the United States, as well as how we diverted our attention away from the war on terror to attack Iraq. For those of you who have a little gray hair, you’ll remember that the Bush Administration told us that Iraq had biological and chemical weapons. We were told they had these mobile devices that could be deployed almost anywhere and release devastating biological or chemical weapons. We

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Afghanistan off the Top of My Head
ecthompsonmd August 17, 2021

Currently were in the middle of what could be called the largest finger-pointing, blame game, we’ve ever seen in the United States. Republicans and Democrats are blaming each other for the dramatic pictures that we are seeing out of Afghanistan. American troops are pulling out after 20 years. President Joe Biden has decided that it is time for our troops to come home. We must understand that Donald Trump had already negotiated with the Taliban and set in stone that the American troops were coming home. Of course, it was possible for Joe Biden to reverse this decision and escalate the

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Errington C. Thompson, MD

Dr. Thompson is a surgeon, scholar, full-time sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats.

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A Letter to America

The Thirteeneth Juror

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