[Tench_Coxe]

What no one seems to mention is another angle that I think might be relevant. If one looks back over the eight years of that travesty known as the Clinton presidency, one notes that the people often labelled as 'enemies' were domestic ( Waco, Ruby Ridge, Cubans in Florida, 'tax protestors', 'constitutionalists' ).

I am of the opinion that Clinton and company were so busy being worried about the typical American as an enemy, that policy and priorities were directed that way, and our foreign threats ( which in their mindset, IMHO, never existed, but needed only understanding and 'engagement' ) were largely ignored.

[Liz]

.......Clinton and company were so busy being worried about the typical
American as an enemy, that .....foreign threats were largely ignored...........

Arrogant Clinton and his minions were too condescending of foreign threats to consider a response.