The lie that "we are all terrorists" undercuts America's moral superiority to the terrorists who attacked us without provocation. This is exactly what the Taliban and bin Laden say to justify their murderous acts. So Bill Clinton's speech was almost as bad as saying outright that we deserved it.
Lyons also fails to mention that while one columnist for National Review Online took the tack that the Washington Times did, the editorial board of the magazine refuted that interpretation. Of course, if he points that out, he'd be an honest writer -- which everyone on this forum knows he is not.
That was my interpretation, as well. It's not what the Washington Times said that he said that I objected to. What offended me was what he really said. If that makes any sense...
That white liberals still wallow in the civil rights miasma of the sixties astounds me. On the one hand, they want full credit for having participated in the Civil Rights Movement. On the other, they refuse to recognize that any progress has been achieved over the past forty years. It is as if, without their guilt, they are nothing.
The whole Georgetown speech was nothing more than an extension of the profuse apologies Clinton was giving to anybody and everybody while he served his two terms as the First Witness for the prosecution of America in the court of world public opinion.