What You Can Look Forward To If We Don't Continue Our Press Against Al Qaeda
More missed opportunities:
Bob Kerry, a former senator and current 9/11 commission member, said, "The most important thing the Clinton administration could have done would have been for the president, either himself or by going to Congress, asking for a congressional declaration to declare war on al-Qaida, a military-political organization that had declared war on us."... NBC News contacted the three top Clinton national security officials. None would do an on-camera interview... We used military force, we used covert operations, we used all of the tools available to us because we realized what a serious threat this was, said President Clinton's former national security adviser James Steinberg. One Clinton Cabinet official said, looking back, the military should have been more involved, "We did a lot, but we did not see the gathering storm that was out there."
At the margin, actually, I'm only half-mad at Clinton. The political reality of September 2000 was a different era, and a reasonable person could "not see the gathering storm" without being entirely incompetent. And Clinton has been an ardent supporter of President Bush's actions.
Why is the Democratic Party pursuing this fool's errand of abandoning our defense to gain an office?
