Two cents on the Clarke affair …

From Illini Gir
l:

/First of all in my humble opinion, Dick Clarke seems like someone
who gave his life to public service, was disappointed at how his
career ended, and has decided to get back at the administration by
pushing this book full of (at the very least) distortions. However
that’s a story for another day, that’s not what I’d like to talk
about tonight. As for the 9/11 commission hearings, I’m going to
apply an equal standard of ignorance here to both parties. Before
9/11, no one could fathom 9/11. Yes we knew that Osama Bin Laden was
a bad guy who wanted to kill Americans. But no one could fathom that
kind of operation succeeding on American soil — it was the stuff
sci-fi movies are made of.

Here’s the thing though. We’re smarter now. If someone gets up and
hijacks a plane, they aren’t going to be allowed to steer it into a
national landmark / skyscraper. We are vigilant, ready to sacrifice
for our country, and attempting to be pro-active on several fronts.
What more can you ask for? All I really want to ask for is this
rehashing of 9/11 to be over. We are never going to be able to
pinpoint one person who could have stopped that horrible day.
Clinton could have tried to kill Osama Bin Laden on numerous
occasions, passengers could have reported suspicious characters
scoping out flights the week before the attacks, Clarke could have
cried “Wolf” more often than he did rightly did over the past ten
years, Bush could have started bombing earlier. I still doubt that
we could have prevented the massacre.

Can we please stop rehashing the past and focus on the matter at
hand? We have the next looming attack to prevent. This isn’t a
one-time battle, it’s not over and done with. The terror networks
are embedded throughout the globe and rooting them out is the
long-term struggle that our generation must confront. End of story. /

What she said.

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