[Pokey78]

Ping.

[Tripleplay]

"The narcissistic, feckless, escapist culture of an America absent without leave in the world was fomented from the top."

Two comments:

I wish I could write like this.

I hope I live long enough to see clinton indicted for TREASON.

[jtill]

Great read. Andrew Sullivan can certainly turn a phrase!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Throughout the Clinton years, this kind of attack was not only predictable but predicted. Not only had Bin Laden already attacked American embassies and warships, he had done so repeatedly and been completely frank about his war. He had even attempted to destroy the World Trade Center in 1993. Same guy, same building. To say that nobody could have anticipated this type of attack is simply to say that US intelligence wasn't good enough to have found it out.

Absolutely right. For eight years, Clinton made no serious effort to counter the growing threat of terrorism. On the contrary, he emboldened the terrorists by responding to terrorist acts with political grandstanding in the form of missile strikes against aspirin factories in Sudan - more comic relief than deterrent. Even worse, he used our military and risked American lives to launch diversionary air strikes against Iraq during the impeachment vote in Congress. While the house was voting in each article of impeachment, CNN showed a split screen, with one side showing the bombing of Iraq as the House voted on impeachment. When Bin Laden's terrorists attacked the USS Cole on October 12, 2000, Clinton vowed to "leave no stone unturned" in hunting down the perpetrators. But in reality, he did nothing.

[Miss Marple]

Andrew Sullivan has, as usual, written an excellent piece. Thanks for flagging me.

An interesting thing about this article: all quotes are taken from the liberal papers and magazines...the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The New Yorker.

None of the Clinton fans can claim they didn't see these articles.