11-02-2004, 06:31 PM
Evan Wrote:--Osama is out in the open, we literally have a gun pointed at his head. Clinton says dont take him out
Ah yes not taking out Bin Laden. Kind of like how Bush had him cornered in the mountains but pulled the troops and intelligence off that mission to go to Iraq? From the horse's mouth:
"We haven't heard much from him. And I wouldn't necessarily say he's at the center of any command structure. And, again, I don't know where he is," Bush said during the 2002 news conference. "I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him. I know he is on the run."
Again, I'm not saying everything is Bush's fault but it certainly is not all Clinton's fault. What about the 1st World Trade Center bombing? It happened 1 month after inauguration so you have to point the finger at the previous administration.
I think Clinton failed to escalate the U.S. response to global terrorism as high as he should have. There was a growing trend after the Gulf War of global violence and we might have been able to counteract it but our official response was fairly weak. We don't know what we were doing covertly (much the same as the Cold War) so I can't speak of that but either way 9/11 happened so whatever we were doing wasn't enough.
We could go back and back and trade blame for things people did and things people didn't do but the basic truth here is that where we are now is not the result of only one president's deeds or misdeeds.