President Bush didn't treat 9/11 as a local POLICE PROBLEM; but, that's EXACTLY how Clinton treated the '93 bombing of the WTC.
During Clinton's eight years, al Qaeda attacked the WTC, our troops in Somalis, two American embassies in Africa, and blew a hole in the USS COLE. Clinton IGNORED all of that as well as OBL's declaration of war on the USA in 1996. And you call all of that "inept"?
Besides trying to get his presidency up and running, after having be severely hampered and delayed by the Clinonista horde, what, exactly, did President Bush have to deal with in his first eight months and just what, specifically from OBL and/or al Qaeda?