That is what was changed on September 11th. But make no mistake, THAT IS WHAT WAS REQUIRED to solve the true problem = a complacent, sleeping public easily cowed by a few liberal jerks on TV or in newspapers. It was a public that REELECTED Clinton and then nearly elected AlGORE. It was a public that allow liberals to change the very meaning of America and to do it at the DNA level. It was the public that allowed liberals to decimate our intelligence capabilities and military FOR YEARS and they just rolled over and said, "ho hum."
September 11th was the empirical evidence that freedom has a price. We were several payments behind.
If something needs to be done to perform that duty, it needs to be done even if it is politically devastating to your own career or the re-election chances of you or your party. If not, politics is being put in front of American lives.
Clinton showed that his administration put politics ahead of the lives of Americans. And Hillary is here, stating it as a matter of course, instead of begging the families of September 11th's dead for forgiveness.
Heck, he didn't even try to move public sentiment towards backing action. Instead, he pardoned some FALN members.
Pardon me, but that's a steamin' pile of bullclinton. He had the charm and persuasion skills to sell anything he wanted to the sucker-moms. If he had really wanted to do something about terrorism (other than lob cruise missiles at empty buildings in the middle of the night to "make a statement"), he could have turned on that scuzzy charm and convinced them that it was the right thing to do and had to be done.
But that would have meant giving up the mindnumbing mantra of "8 years of peace and prosperity." And THAT is the reason, my friends, that he and his administration pointedly refused to even *look* at the overwhelming evidence that the Sudanese government had compiled on bin laden.
And the fact that he's a lazy, amoral, selfish coward is what murdered 3000+ people and nearly killed me three months ago.