Believe me. I've read the books, I know the story. You've now put me in a position of having to defend Bill Clinton, not an easy task, but the phrase to remember was "failure of imagination". 9/11 changed everything. Except for a small group of well-informed experts, the entire world...Democrats, Republicans alike, didn't take the threat seriously enough. Could Clinton have stopped it? Very likely. Even if he had gotten bin Laden, however, there's no gurantee that the kill would have stopped the attacks.
Berger and Albright screwed up bigtime, and it was the exclamation point on a long line of foreign policy failures. The entire government could and should have taken the threat more seriously.
If you have, as you claim, "read all the books", then where is the excuse, from you, for Clinton refusing to take OBL from the Sudanese, THREE TIMES, when they offered him to Slick? Such a decision was far above the pay grade of the likes of Sandy Berger and Madeline Albright and neither of them had been offered OBL; but Clinton was and he refuse the offer.
Neither did he nor any of his "team" do ANYTHING whatsoever, but talk, when the American embassies in Africa and the USS COLE were struck by terrorists.
From the first WTC attack through the USS COLE attack, Clinton did NOTHING in retaliation. If he had, yes, 9/11 would most probably NOT happened. And the fact that YOU refuse to admit that, even to yourself, says quit a lot about you.
And BTW, 9/11 didn't change the way ANY Dem thinks; they still have a 9/10 mentality...........just like you.
Berger was there to cover Bill's arse; Maddy was there for affirmative action reasons.
You may try again, to answer my question, but this time, you'd better use accurate facts and details. What you proffered this time around, was even worse than your original post.
"Even if he had gotten bin Laden, however, there's no gurantee that the kill would have stopped the attacks."
If Bin Laden was captured or killed (when Clinton was offere the opportunity), it would have been quite difficult for OBL to fund future attacks. Therefore, I believe capturing him would have been key to stopping many of the attacks.