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thx.
The quote is mine... It is my view that clinton failed to go after the terrorists for two main reasons: (1) For clinton, job security always trumped national security (2) His essential stupidity and cowardice. "It was the TERRORISM, stupid." Indeed, given clinton's obsession with his legacy, there is no greater measure of clinton's essential stupidity and cowardice than his failure to take on the terrorists, his only possible path to a semblance of success... |
I stand corrected. It is my view that clinton failed to go after the terrorists for two main reasons:
(1) For clinton, job security always trumped national security
(2) His essential stupidity and cowardice. "It was the TERRORISM, stupid."
I agree with the first proposition, but I don't know about the second. He was not so much a moral coward -- he braved the justice system repeatedly, remember, jeopardizing e.g. not just his job as attorney-general of Arkansas but his career for the sake of a momentary rape-romp with Juanita Broaddrick -- as he was an amoral seeker of certain self-realizations that we call criminal, but which were somehow powerfully attractive, compelling, vindicating and validating to him.
Why was he driven throughout his political career to tempt ruin, and to wipe his derriere with straight types like the Madison Guaranty investigators, Ken Starr, and Bill McCollum -- taunting them publicly, it seemed to me at the time, and expressing his contempt for everything they represented? It seems to me that that is what he did. He repeatedly relied on unreliable people like the McDougals and Webster Hubbell while committing crimes that would, if proven in court, end his career immediately. And yet he got away with it time and again, even as his associates filed off to prison, and in prison found reasons to reassess their "friendship" with the perpetual scapegrace.
What's with this guy?
And why did he avoid the terrorism issue?