I will be taping this tonight. If good enough, I will show the first part in my history classes tomorrow instead of the CNN America Remembers DVD my cooperating teacher wants to show (am student teaching).
These kids need to know what went on that ultimately led to 9/11. Now, it is not fair to ultimately blame Clinton for 9/11 (even if he took OBL out, somebody probably would have taken his place and maybe 9/11 would still have occurred), but his reckless disregard for the pursuit of Bin Laden no doubt helped Al Queda.
Teach the children Well...... and let them know what we stand for.
Teachers like you are forever in our debt.
God Bless You.
It is, of course, the combination of feckless responses to the 93 WTC attack, the US embassy attacks in Africa and the USS Cole that emboldened not only OBL but the terrorists everywhere. We can also do some fingerpointing along those lines to Carter and even Reagan and Bush 1.
Much of the blame does indeed rest on Clinton's shoulders and his 8 year tenure of hell though. The attacks were escalating in boldness and frequency.
Ugh. Better to just have an open discussion than force them to watch the CNN DVD. It's more of an ad for CNN than it is a show about 9/11.