Allies, critics say Clinton fell short in terror fight

Boston Globe ^ | 9.21.01 | Brian McGrory and Michael Kranish,

[victim soul]

WASHINGTON - The dual bombings ranked as one of the most insidious acts of terrorism ever committed against the United States: two American embassies in Africa decimated, more than 300 dead, and a shadowy prime suspect, Osama bin Laden, bragging that the battle had just begun.

[The_Victor]

Does he think the USS Cole belongs to the Bolivian navy?

You have the wrong approach here. You see in democRATs minds, since the USS Cole is a military target, the attack is quietly a good thing, and the deaths of soldiers is OK. No need to rally public opinoin against the terrorists, since the attack is our own fault.

[elfman2]

Clinton didn't have the moral credibility to lead this nation in that kind of war. His motivations would have been suspected at every turn by every nation. It would have been nearly impossible for him to lead. He weakened his authority and cut the legs out from under his talented potential for short-term gain (for a kind of existential fleeting buzz). Now I almost pity him.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Allies, critics say Clinton fell short in terror fight

Short and Bent...the bubba legacy.

[or short, bent and crooked (gotta get the corrpution in)]

[steve-b]

Clinton didn't have the moral credibility to lead this nation in that kind of war.

Oscuma bent Willie doesn't have the moral credibility to lead sailors to the local whore-house.

[mcollins]

The following non-PC remarks may offend some. Too bad - it is the truth.

Clinton was a weak woman and presided over a feminization of the US and its defence. To Islamic terrorists this type of behavior is an invitation to get beat up.

We must change our demeanor and stand up like men in the defense of our country. No excuses. No appologies. No sympathy to our enemies. No worring about the consequences, if we do the right thing. It seems this is happening. Keep it up.

mcollins

[Tai_Chung]

Allies, critics say Clinton fell short....

Does Monica feel that Clinton fell short?

Clinton's fight had an added strain.

Is that strain or stain?

[Gumlegs]

I'm not arguing with your overall point here, but I must point out that under international law, the ships in our navy are considered our territory.

[gumbo]

Gorelick actually isn't as ugly as some of Clinton's female (?) appointees. But she did have her hair cut Reno-style.

[going hot]

My computer is an old six cylinder, and not turbocharged. I suppose I should go get another. :-)

[AuntB]

Hi mcollins. I saw a couple men stand up to Clinton yesterday on a news item. He and Mrs. Blair went to a station of rescue people. Bubba was going down the line of men and the two they showed crossed their arms and ignored him. He looked like a fish out of water.

Clinton fiddled while Rome burned.

[Terry Mross]

Clinton would have loved for an attack to have happened. He longed to be the big JFK type leader in time of crisis. And his lesbian wife sat and watched Bush be everything she wished her husband was. And she wished she could be. Even Howard Fineman said, "Clinton and his crowd are now irrelevant." FINALLY! Of course, in my mind, they've always been irrelevant.

[Terry Mross]

Clinton wants in on this so bad he can taste it like Monica tasted it. I've heard his aids, whatever he has left, has been pitching him to all the networks that he's available for interviews. He must have been shocked that only Tom Bwokaw accepted. Clinton is a pathetic shell of a man. And the shell has finally cracked.

[Gumlegs]

Spending money on a new computer would help the economy. Think of it as your patriotic duty. (To be honest, I've only just given up my quill pen).

[SGCOS]

...Clinton's solution, just three weeks after the twin embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, was to fire some 75 cruise missiles at terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and a suspected nerve gas factory in Sudan.

Which just happened to be on the same morning that Lewinsky testified before a grand jury.

And we ended up destroying a few goat-herder tents and an aspirin factory.

[The_Victor]

... but I must point out that under international law, the ships in our navy are considered our territory.

Of course. But as far as the Clintoon administration was concerned, the law is irrelevant (FReepers have been saying that for years). Coalescing public opinion is a function of EFFORT on the part of the president. In the case of the USS Cole, no desire leads to no effort.

[Maceman]

Some wonder whether he wasn't distracted by the legal and political quagmire of the Monica S. Lewinsky case.

I love this. Like it wasn't his own fault that he engaged in perjury, witness intimidation and subornation of perjury, to say nothing of his underlying risky sexual behaviors that exposed him to blackmail in the first place.

Frankly, I think after Bush's speech last night, a lot of people are having a hard time imagining how Clinton, Albright, Cohen and Gore could EVER have handled a WTC-type crisis effectively.

While I was listening to Bush last night, I had this image of the country seeing Clinton getting smaller, and smaller and smaller, like they were seeing him from the back of a moving train.

[Uff Da]

You don't say.Clinton fell down on the job? Naw, couldn't have been.He was always working so hard for all of us.:)

How in the world can Clinton still have so many admirers and the loyal support they show him?????? "There are none so blind as those who WILL NOT SEE!!"

[Valin]

Allies, critics say Clinton fell short in terror fight

Can we say understatement of the day?

[COBOL2Java]

That quite clearly describes anything Clintoon has ever attempted to do. Lots of grandiose talk, get bored quickly, drop the project for the next high profile fad.

Perhaps Clintoon has ADD.

Not ADD, but SDD - Sexual Distraction Disorder. He'd get into enginerring a policy (remember, he was billed as a "policy wonk"), but then a comely lass would catch his eye, "Mr. Willie" would get energized, and all other things would be tossed aside....

Not to get too gross, but one wonders how many policy ideas wound up in the drain of the Oval Office sink...

[Irene Adler]

"Now, one infamous day and more than 6,000 deaths later, some in the capital are pointedly, though quietly, critical of Clinton's failure to elevate his actions toward his lofty rhetoric."

Is it just possible that THIS realization, in both the Beltway and the nation at large, could prove to be the Clintons' ultimate undoing? Could it finally make the dems and the sheeple actively ashamed of the evil duo? Will the stench of this cruel event cling permanently to the Clintons and their self-glorifying presidency? Could it be that what goes around really DOES come around? This may be as close as anything will ever come to rough justice for the Clintons. Horrible way to have it happen (the deaths of innocent people).