Answer to Criticism

Cliff May last night after finishing "The Path to 9/11":

Then what is true? That he and those in his administration, at the highest levels, were seized with the issue of terrorism and Militant Islamism? That from the first World Trade Center attack in 1993 through the attack on Khobar Towers to the bombing of our embassies in Africa to the assault on the USS Cole to the moment they left the White House, they did everything they could have, everything in their power to eliminate Osama bin Laden and to diminish al-Qaeda?

That they let nothing get in their way – not sclerotic bureaucracies, not political considerations or political correctness, not inter-agency rivalries? That they did indeed accomplish their most vital missions? That bin Laden was killed, the terrorist training camps shut down, al-Qaeda crippled – and the atrocities of 9/11/01 didn’t happen?

Look, there’s plenty of blame to go around. It’s time Clinton and his crew took their share of it.

Bravo!

I must admit, there's been a bit of partisan "Get Clinton!," in my thinking on this entire subject. Perhaps it's understandable, perhaps inexcusable.

Regardless of which, the fact that we were forced to witness the partisan "bi-partisan" review of the Bush Administration's actions vis-a-vis 9/11 during the 9/11 hearings still wrankles. It should be plain to anyone not too-far-gone to either the left or the right, that America's failures on this issue transcended both the current and previous Adminstrations and goes back decades.

For one to claim some sort of high-ground in this "fight" is absurd. Bill Clinton needs to face his detractors on this just as George W. Bush has been forced to over the last five years.