> From: Gautam Mukunda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> You feel this way about _eight years_ of continuous
> inaction by the Clinton Administration too, or is it
> only Republicans who get blamed for inaction?  Doing
> nothing after the first WTC bombing...after an attempt
> to assassinate George Bush...after Kenya...after
> Tanzania...and after the USS Cole - that was okay?

Invading anybody prior to 9-11 was never going to happen so it is
pointless to talk about it.  There was simply no political will to
make it happen.  That is especially so in the Clinton administration
where any talk about anything like that would have immediately been
put down with comments about "wagging the dog".  I don't blame Bush
for not invading Afganistan prior to 9-11.

But I do blame him for putting terrorism on the back-burner.  And I
think it is amazingly arrogant of the Bush administration to
constantly talk like they did absolutely everything right and
nothing wrong.  Admit that some mistakes were made and talk about
fixing them.  Sheesh, that's the first thing I expect of someone who
works for me.  Everybody screws up, admit it and move on.

  - jmh
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