Let me start with the first WTC bombing about which Clinton did nothing. Well we caught the guys who did it. What were we to do next?
> We had enough evidence to know that he was launching > terrorist attacks against the United States, and was > planning on doing so again. We should, of course, > have had Sudan hand him over, interrogated him, found > out everything he knew about his organization, and > killed him. Of course being a cowardly terrorist he would have admitted everything. The rest of the world would have said he is obviously planning something truly massive so we can understand you playing fast and lose with international law. We all know that Arafats refusal to accept an agreement brokered by Clinton that would have made peace possible would inevitably lead to an upswelling of anti-americanism in the arab "street" We all could see the coming of suicide bombings it was so obvious. So obvisous that the Bush administration took extraudinary efforts during it initial months to bring about peace in Israel. Better _before_ 9/11 than after it, > because 9/11 was an inevitability as long as he was > free. The fact that it happened didn't surprise > anyone I knew in the field - in fact, as Graham > Allison said a few days later, in a real sense we were > very lucky. And of course it was obvious to the Bush administration before 9/11 because they made it a priority to boost anti-terrorism funding immediately upon entering office rather than cutting same. As I remember it was right behind putting more arsenic into our water supply. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
