Posted on 10/01/2001 12:24:07 PM PDT by Mia T
Political Left Beginning to Finger clinton for Terrorists' Success
clinton through Rose-colored glasses...
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...The September 11 massacre resulted from a fantastic failure on the part of the United States government to protect its citizens from an act of war. This failure is now staring us in the face and, if the errors are to be rectified, it is essential to acknowledge what went wrong. Two questions come to mind: how was it that the Osama Bin Laden network, known for more than a decade, was still at large and dangerous enough this autumn to inflict such a deadly blow? Who was responsible in the government for such a failure of intelligence, foreign policy and national security? These questions have not been asked directly, for good reasons. There is a need to avoid recriminations at a time of national crisis. But at the same time, the American lack of preparedness that Tuesday is already slowing the capacity to bring Bin Laden to justice by constricting military and diplomatic options. And with a president just a few months in office, criticism need not extend to the young administration that largely inherited this tattered security apparatus. Whatever failures of intelligence, security or diplomacy exist, they have roots far deeper than the first nine months of this year. When national disasters of unpreparedness have occurred in other countries...ministers responsible have resigned. Taking responsibility for mistakes in the past is part of the effort not to repeat them. So why have heads not rolled? The most plausible answer is that nobody has been fired because this attack was so novel and impossible to predict that nothing in America's security apparatus could have prevented it. The only problem with this argument is that it is patently untrue. 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. ... The decision to get down and dirty with the terrorists, to take their threat seriously and counter them aggressively, was simply never taken. Many bear the blame for this: Warren Christopher, the clueless, stately former secretary of state; Anthony Lake, the tortured intellectual at the National Security Council; General Colin Powell, whose decision to use Delta Force units in Somalia so badly backfired; but, above all, former president Bill Clinton, whose inattention to military and security matters now seems part of the reason why America was so vulnerable to slaughter. Klein cites this devastating quote from a senior Clinton official: "Clinton spent less concentrated attention on national defence than any other president in recent memory. He could learn an issue very quickly, but he wasn't very interested in getting his hands dirty with detail work. His style was procrastination, seeing where everyone was, before taking action. This was truer in his first term than in the second, but even when he began to pay attention he was constrained by public opinion and his own unwillingness to take risks."It is hard to come up with a more damning description of negligence than that.
Clinton even got a second chance. In 1998, after Bin Laden struck again at US embassies in Africa, the president was put on notice that the threat was deadly. He responded with a couple of missile strikes against Afghanistan and Sudan, some of which missed their targets and none of which seriously impacted on Osama Bin Laden... If the security manager of a nuclear power plant presides over a massive external attack on it, then it's only right that he should be held responsible, in part, for what happened. More than 6,000 families are now living with the deadly consequences of the negligence of the government of the United States. There is no greater duty for such a government than the maintenance of national security, and the protection of its own citizens. When a senior Clinton official can say of his own leader that he "spent less concentrated attention on national defence than any other president in recent memory", and when this administration is followed by the most grievous breach of domestic security in American history, it is not unreasonable to demand some accounting... We thought for a long time that the Clinton years would be seen, in retrospect, as a mixed blessing. He was sleazy and unprincipled, we surmised, but he was also competent, he led an economic recovery, and he conducted a foreign policy of multilateral distinction. But the further we get away from the Clinton years, the more damning they seem. The narcissistic, feckless, escapist culture of an America absent without leave in the world was fomented from the top. The boom at the end of the decade turned out to include a dangerous bubble that the administration did little to prevent. The "peace-making" in the Middle East and Ireland merely intensified the conflicts. The sex and money scandals were not just debilitating in themselves - they meant that even the minimal attention that the Clinton presidency paid to strategic military and intelligence work was skimped on. We were warned. But we were coasting. And the main person primarily entrusted with correcting that delusion, with ensuring America's national security - the president - was part of the problem. Through the dust clouds of September 11, and during the difficult task ahead, one person hovers over the wreckage - and that is Bill Clinton. His legacy gets darker with each passing day.
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by Mia T New York, Sept. 21 -- In an O'Reilly Factor interview immediately following President Bush's address to Congress tonight, Bill Maher, loyal clinton lackey, correctly fingered bill clinton as the proximate cause of the 9-11 terrorist attack on New York and Washington. Maher specifically implicated clinton's feckless, cowardly bombing of the terrorists from three miles high, implying that clinton bombed from that distance because he was fearful that casualties would cost him popularity in the polls. In a fog of delusion and illogic, however, Maher then incorrectly proceeded to place the ultimate blame for the attacks on the American people, arguing that because clinton was "a poll-driven president" he was only following the people's wishes. Maher does not seem to understand that he has it exactly backwards, that it is a leader's responsibility to shape opinion, that clinton's failure to lead was a symptom of clinton's overriding egomania, cowardice, fecklessness and depravity, that clinton's failure to lead was precisely the first efficient cause of the terrorists' success.
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Chris Matthews: Clinton never had shot at greatness/never got opportunity Bush was given Tuesday
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Bush: "I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt." Washington and the liberal media may be getting the message: George Bush is for real and he's no Mr. Nice Guy when it comes to war. Even Newsweek's Howard Fineman, a liberal Bush-basher, has had to do a double take this week. Writing in his column of an Oval office meeting with four U.S. Senators -- including Hillary Rodham -- Fineman described Bush "relaxed and in control." Fineman, drawing a comparison with Winston Churchill's defiance during World War II, quoted the president as telling the Senators: "When I take action," he said, "I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive." No doubt, Hillary must have shuddered when she heard that, a clear hit on her husband's eight years of appeasement with terrorists and their backers. Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff [ASIDE: Have you noticed that as of the morning of 9-11-01, hillary clinton's "best memory" informs her--and she is quick to inform us -- that she was not "co-president" after all?] |
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Well, I have to admit, your notion really at least appears to have credibility. So you think that the elite honchos use the GOP to run the show, allowing Dems to get elected (in the case of Clinton, actually going out of their way through Ross Perot) in order to weaken and distract us while they prepare for the next wave to thrust us into their long term plans? You may be right. Actually, it makes sense. There's no question in my mind that they control both parties. Really disheartening. Oh well, as I said, it's enough to drive a person mad. I think that writer ACE once postulated that they were using Clinton to set up Cold War II. Looks liked it turned hot with the perfect excuse. You probably remember that quote by D. Rockefeller, something along the lines (paraphrasing), "The only thing left to take America into the NWO is one more crisis." Something like that. At any rate, you probably know what that means, and the implications are just too much for me to handle right now.
Interesting that in Woodward's book, The Choice, clinton fantasizes about having a big issue to define him, such as a war, "I would have preferred being president during World War II" he said one night in January 1995. "I'm a person out of my time." How ghastly to contemplate THAT scenario. ! Yet he is blind to what he should have done about the repeated acts of terrorism against us.
And we have the absurd Chris Matthews bemoaning that clinton did not have the chance he actually HAD. Note: I only cap real people.
Slick was in on this too. It's called blackmail. Uncle Wee-Wee's first move as president was to silence the Republicans by stealing any FBI files he could find on them. As for the Republicans...Wonderful, ain't it, that we have such castrated paragons of virtue in Congress, that the American people go unprotected? Your tax dollars at work...
We need a thorough housecleaning in Washington. For a start, I recommend a government based upon a separation of money and state. Pull the money plug...i.e. end taxation, and you won't find any pigs at the trough because there won't be one.
He WAS the crisis.
Actually, I do tend to think the "Tom Landry" types call the plays wherein Clintonesque quarterbacks run the ball in the muck for them. I have yet to find anything else that makes Sense.
Part of my problem stems from a Frontline episode, actually, wherein I realized for the first time that -- back in the late sixties -- a little "gathering of eagles" in some backwater polysci professor's home in Arkansas consisted of the next two Democratic presidents and a handful of Bob Dole type Also-Rans.
It struck me as sorta odd that such tight groups (both of "our guys" already IN the White House, the CIA, the hallowed halls of power and "Their Guys") wouldn't have some passing familiarity with each other somehow ... particularly given the Intelligence background of and Maotais among "our guys".
Kudos.
However, Andrew Sullivan (about the first article, above) is not himself from the political left.
BTW, "Pro-Terrorist ersatz Pacifist Krypto-Nazi Camel Butt Traitors Demand America Surrender to Terrorists."
I've had that same scary thought running through my mind for years. In the past decade, we've literally bent over backwards to turn China into a military/technological powerhouse. And, for some reason, I just don't think China has our best interests at heart. They have a ways to go, of course. They don't even have a navy, yet. At the same time, we kowtow to them on the Taiwan issue, the free Chinese. It just ain't right...
THE OTHER NIXON In this postmodern Age of clinton, we may, from time to time, selectively stomach corruption. But we must never abide ugliness. Never.
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One more...
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What horse manure. The DEMS - when given the choice of guns or butter.....choose butter 100% of the time.
Conservatives have long preached the main duty of government is protection of the nation. All else is secondary.
- I suspect that, to spite us all,
- Arthur Schlesinger will probably live to 120
- just so he can write
- the definitive clinton hagiography.
--------Mia T, Musings: Senatorial Courtesy Perverted
- What harm can clinton do? He has less than two years left.
--Senator Dale Bumpers
- A C-SPAN survey of 58 U.S. historians has concluded that Bill Clinton is the president with the lowest 'moral authority' -- beating out Richard Nixon for last place, Monday's NEW YORK TIMES is set report.
----C-SPAN PRESIDENTS POLL: CLINTON JUDGED LOWEST IN MORALS
- I think history will view this much differently.
-----the First Psychopath, himself
- ...[bill clinton], a man who will be regarded in the history books as one of our greatest presidents.
-----Al Gore at clinton's post-impeachment rally
clinton's ranking will likely get worse over time. Economic issues fade in importance over time. Moral issues presist and grow. (paraphrase)
------Douglas Brinkley, history professor,
on Washington Journal discussing C-SPAN poll
- It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.
-----Nietzsche
- History Lesson
- by Mia T
- Someone--was it Maupassant?--
- once called history "that excitable and lying old lady."
- The same can be said of historians.
- Surely it can be said of Doris Kearns Goodwin,
- the archetypical pharisaical historian,
- not-so-latently clintonoid,
- Lieberman-Paradigmatic
- (i.e., clinton is an unfit president;
- therefore clinton must remain president),
- intellectually dishonest,
- (habitually doing what the Arthur Schlesingers of this world do:
- making history into the proof of their theories).
- The Forbids 400's argument is shamelessly spurious.
- They get all unhinged over the impeachment of clinton,
- claiming that it will
- "leave the presidency permanently disfigured and diminished,
- at the mercy as never before of the caprices of any Congress."
- Yet they dismiss the real and present--and future!!--danger
- to the presidency and the country
- of not impeaching and removing
- this admittedly unfit, (Goodwin)
- "documentably dysfunctional," (NYT)
- presidency-diminishing, (Goodwin)
- power-abusing,
- psychopathic thug.
- Doris Kearns Goodwin and those 400 other
- hog-and-bow-tied-save-clinton,
- retrograde-obsessing historiographers
- are a supercilious, power-hungry,
- egomaniacal lot in their own right.
- For them, clinton validates
- what Ogden Nash merely hypothesized:
- Any buffoon can make history,
- but only a great man can write it.
oh yeah bill shaking hands with castro---doing his heavy lifting--carrying his water for the camels/revolution!
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