That statement proves that the toon knew bin Laden thought we were cowards after the Black Hawk incident.
The Pentagon feared a debacle similar to April 1980 when President Carter dispatched helicopters to Iran in hopes of rescuing 52 American hostages. The result was the incineration of two helicopters and the deaths of eight servicemen.
Uh yeah, they feared an ingorant boob giving orders to the military.
The authors suspect that Pentagon reservations about the Clinton plan ran deeper. The Pentagon, they point out, had an uneasy relationship with Clinton virtually from Day 1, when the White House began pushing to end discrimination against homosexuals by the military.
Not buying that, more likey they knew he was a worthless CIC.
They quoted a senior political appointee at the Pentagon as saying that Defense was "particularly unwilling to go out on a limb for Clinton."
And why should they, when they asked for help in Mogadishu, they got sqaut.
Also, the authors say, Thomas Pickering, No. 3 at the State Department under Clinton, worried that someone at Defense would put out the story that the Clinton plan would "hazard the lives of young Americans in a wild goose chase. The Pentagon has a great capacity to let things leak to keep from doing them."
Clinton's "black ninja" plan never got off the ground.
And thank God! It probably saved countless military lives.
Lee Edwards, who follows presidential politics at the Heritage Foundation, says all presidents have had difficulty with balky bureaucracies.
He recalled that President Truman, shortly before Dwight D. Eisenhower's succession in 1953, said, "Poor Ike. He's going to come in, give an order and think it's going to be carried out."
Interesting how GWB doesn't seem to have these problems.
We survived that toon by the skin of our teeth!
Senator Hillary Clinton (news - web sites) poses with Lauren Manning for photographers as they arrive at the Glamour magazine Women of the Year awards in New York City, October 28, 2002. Manning was given one of the awards after she survived the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center. REUTERS/Jeff ChristensenMore on Lauren Manning:
After breakfast on September 11, 2001, Lauren Manning, a senior vice president and partner at Cantor-Fitzgerald, a large New York bond-trading firm, headed for One World Trade Center, as she did every morning. As she stepped into the lobby, a fireball exploded from the elevator shaft, and in that split second her life was changed forever...
Until that moment, Lauren had been, in her husband's words, "vibrant, athletic, beautiful, decisive and demanding." Now burns covered more than 80 percent of her body; her odds of surviving were said to be less than 15 percent; and she was lying in an ICU, in a drug-induced coma, hovering between life and death. It would be two months before she awoke fully enough to find out that her office building was gone, and with it, hundreds of colleagues and friends.
On September 19, Lauren's husband Greg began writing a daily journal. In the form of e-mails sent to family, friends, and colleagues, he recorded her harrowing struggle - and his own tormented efforts to make sense of an act that defies all understanding. This book contains those letters - detailed, intimate, inspiring messages that end, always, with "Love, Greg & Lauren."
It was, first and foremost, Greg's belief that Lauren would win her brave fight for life that kept him writing. Through his eyes we see what she could not - her ten-month-old son's first steps, and the video of his first birthday party. And we are there as Lauren gradually emerges into awareness, signaling first with her eyes, and then with smiles, her understanding of the words Greg speaks to her, and the songs he plays. Most miraculously, we are there when Lauren walks out of the Burn Center.
The world knows all too well by now both the nightmare and the heroism associated with "9/11." But no account quite matches this one for its heartfelt spontaneity. It is a story that invites us to share, e-mail after e-mail, the perilous course of a mortally wounded woman who, because she is determined to live for her husband and her son, emerges from near death by sheer willpower and courage. And it is equally the story of a man who, as he stays by her side, discovers anew the depth of his love. Link
Quite a contrast between these two women, Lauren a brave soul with so much love in her heart for her son and husband stuggled heroically to become the wife and mom she once was.
And the skank who cares only about herself and her political career. Glamour had to invite hillary as the anti-glamour balance for the evening.