For Senator Clinton, It’s 1993 All over Again

http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=YmY0MjRkZjM3YzRiYWM1YTljYjJhMGYyMjAwM2I2MTk= ^ | Andrew McCarthy

[ventanax5]

I n February 1993, just days after their bomb failed to bring down the Twin Towers (though it did kill several people, injure over a thousand, and cause nearly a billion dollars in damage), jihadists prepared a letter warning Americans of what was to come — a letter that takes one’s breath away when reread six years after the destruction of the World Trade Center:

We are, the Liberation Army fifth battalion, again. Unfortunately, our calculations were not very accurate this time. However, we promise you that next time it will be very precise and WTC will continue to be one our [sic] targets unless our [space] demands have been met.

Of course, listening to our enemies was never a high priority during the Clinton administration. Jihadi threats were regarded as evidence to be introduced at trials for the fewer than three dozen terrorists we managed to apprehend during those eight years. They were not factors for designing a national security policy with respect to the remaining legions of Islamic radicals who were targeting us from their faraway redoubts — insulated from U.S. prosecution while they told us exactly what they were up to, then made good on those warnings, time after time.

The Clinton administration always had some reason not to take up the challenge of the war the enemy was already fighting: the desire not to upset American Muslims, a hoped for rapprochement with Iran, the delicate balance required for the holy-grail of Israeli/Palestinian peace negotiations, etc. Americans kept getting killed, and al Qaeda kept getting bolder as its leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, pointed repeatedly to American fecklessness — congratulating growing ranks of terror recruits on joining the “strong horse,” which had its sights trained on the “weak horse,” the one without fight.

[Rummyfan]

But there is a history here, one we all lived. A history whose lesson it is the duty of anyone who would presume to lead us — to be responsible for American lives — to grasp: When you let them have Iraq, like we let them have Afghanistan in the 1990s, they tend to want Manhattan.

Got that you dimwit Senator? May your presence never shame the White House again!

[Wiseghy]

I just watched the Showtime special about the ‘72 olympics. It began then, with the cycle of terror and appeasement.

The US response was to whisk Mark Spitz away on a plane and then watch the tragedy unfold, in horror. I was a child, but I recall it very clearly.

A new holocaust, on German soil, before the entire planet’s eyes.

[bsaunders]

Here is a view on this a a bit more from Beyond the Cusp.
Here is a direct link to the article, Down the Middle East Path to the Future.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Good Post

[True Republican Patriot]

JFinKerry stated on 9-11-01 that TWA 800 was an act of terror and he reiterated that TWA 800 was an ACT OF TERROR two weeks later on “Hardball” when Matthews tried to get him to back down. I take JFinKerry at his word and he was in a position to know the facts.

[Doug Loss]

I just watched the Showtime special about the ‘72 olympics. It began then, with the cycle of terror and appeasement.

I was in the US Army, stationed in Neu Ulm, Germany (maybe 100 km. from Munich), when that all happened. You have no idea how much we all wanted to be asked to go take those guys down. But the call never came...

[Califelephant]

BTT

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping.