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Friday, September 08, 2006
Bill Clinton Upset Over Upcoming ABC Miniseries "The Path To 9/11" Or in other words, it's as if he had declared to his advisors, "Bin Laden, schmin Laden! Just get me out of this jam!" Nor does the miniseries offer much in the way of compliments for then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright or Sandy "pants" Berger, Clinton's national security advisor. In fact, in terms of dealing with terrorism, the entire Clinton team was shown to be pretty much out to lunch. It's not exactly surprising. There are reasons the Clinton years are sometimes referred to as America's "vacation from history" and this is part of it. The Cold War had been won (no thanks to Democrats, by the way, but rather to others who were actually serious about fighting the evil of communism) and it was thought that there were no more serious threats to civilization. Wrong! But at the time radical Islam didn't seem like such a big deal. A terrorist bombing of an embassy here, a terrorist strike on a U.S. naval vessel there . . . What did it all matter in the grand scheme of things? The economy was cranking and the stock market was going through the roof. And as John Kerry has said, dealing with terrorism is like dealing with crime -- you just try and contain it at some minimal but acceptable level. You don't go and do something crazy like declare war on it. But now the details of their negligence (which, by the way, were drawn from the official 9/11 commission report) are coming back to haunt them, and from a sector of America that has traditionally been a bastion of liberalism and extremely friendly to Clintonistas: Hollywood. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the protestations of Clinton, as well as plenty of others, are not about correcting inaccuracies for the historical record, but rather about two other things: the upcoming midterm elections and preventing further tarnish to the Clintonian legacy. Concerning the elections, the math is simple. Democrats are already perceived as being weak on terror. The miniseries in question could serve to reinforce that perception, and given the emotions that are sure to be dredged up by the fifth anniversary of 9/11, it could influence the way some people vote and could conceivably prevent the Dems from taking control of one or more houses of Congress. As for the Clintonian legacy, what do I mean by "further" tarnish? Well, there was that pesky Lewinsky scandal, the juicy details of which reverberated around the world, escaping not even the remotest tribe of New Guinea headhunters and tarnishing the former president's legacy forever. But that was just an overblown (if I can use that term) scandal which, after all, was only about sex and not about job performance (or at least not his). As his popularity ratings from the time made clear, most Americans didn't hold it against him, probably because they credited him with orchestrating the greatest economic expansion in human history. But the idea that he might have been negligent in his pursuit of terrorist bigwigs, which may have in turn led to the single worst attack on American soil in our history, would be a far more serious stain (again, if I can use such a term) on his legacy than Monicagate. Impeaching Clinton just because he turned the Oval Office into the Oral Office may have actually made the Republicans look worse than the president. But negligence that may have led to 9/11 is a whole other universe of potentially stained legacy that he would prefer not be broadcast on national television. Greg Strange provides conservative commentary with plenty of acerbic wit on the people, politics, events and absurdities of our time. See more at his website: http://www.greg-strange.com/ Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by Greg Strange at 8:45 AM |
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1 Comments:
If blame becomes the central concern with regard to the attack on 9/11, clearly America, as a whole must accept responsibility.
It is patently absurd for anyone to claim that the events of that day could have been prevented, if only....
The basic problem stems from an,
almost, total inability for people in this country to even imagine that such an event could take place.
People like Richard Clark, and more recently, Gary Hart, who claim to have warned the president of an impending attack, are clearly misrepresenting what is was that they actually "knew."
To say that they knew that Bin Laden intended to launch attacks inside America can, in no way equates to knowing that terrorists were going to hijack several planes and crash them into targets on 9/11. Absent that very specific intelligence, stopping the attack was nothing short of an impossibility.
What the Clinton Administration needs to be held accountable for is their total failure to do ANYTHING of substance to respond to repeated attacks by terrorists, despite ample opportunity and provocation. Democrats always seem to believe that, if they can find the right approach, talking can always resolve any differences we might have with those who are trying to harm us. They have steadfastly failed to recognize that militant Islam does not want to negotiate. Militant Islam has a vision, a goal and there is no place for any deviation. They cannot and will not, be placated.
Democrats firmly believe that, deep down, all peoples are the same. That we all have the same wants and needs. Such belief is sophomoric and extremely dangerous.
And wholly without merit.
Of all the wailing protests, perhaps the most absurd, if not the most blatantly self-serving, is that of Sandy Berger. The man with the stolen, classified documents stuffed down this pants and tucked into his socks. His attempts to sterilize the historical record says it all!
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