[neverdem]

Don't be so glum chum. Although this was a book review, it was on the OpEd page of the WSJ. I'm confident Condi will be well prepared. She should be able to knock it out of the park.

They're flapping their gums about the speech she was supposed to give on Sep 11, 2004 which stressed the importance of ballistic missile defense. Wasn't that not too long after the North Koreans launched a two stage missile that went over Japan?

[cyncooper]

Someone found a thread with an article dated September 22, 2001

Looks like Clarke didn't know (as if we ever thought he did) everything the administration was planning and/or talking about.

Notice today that idiotic spin was put out that because Condi Rice was originally scheduled to give a speech on 9/11 that emphasized missile defense, (but also addressed terrorism in the form of suitcase bombs, sarin on the subway and so forth-but it wasn't THE priority), we were invited to conclude that the administration was focusing on "rogue states" and not the REAL threat, Al Qaeda. But perhaps they were (and I am positive they were).

Threat of US strikes passed to Taliban weeks before NY attack

Excerpt

Osama bin Laden and the Taliban received threats of possible American military strikes against them two months before the terrorist assaults on New York and Washington,