The details of the Clark debacle aside, there are at least two reasons why Leftist faux outrage about the Bush administration’s pre-9/11 focus on terrorism (or lack thereof) rises to the level of “shameless”:
(1) The real threat by the time that the Bush administration got into office was not in Afghanistan – it was in this country, where 16 hijackers had already slipped in under the Clinton administration’s watch. I can’t do better on this point than the inimitable Ms. Coulter:
Suppose Bush had known 19 Muslim immigrants planned to hijack four planes on Sept. 11. What could he have done? Throw Arabs out of the country? Put them in preventive detention? Order airport security to take an extra little peek at swarthy men boarding planes?
Liberals won’t let us do that now!
In a girly-girl, eye-poking attack, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., has demanded an investigation into “what the White House knew about the events leading up to 9-11, when they knew it and, most importantly, what was done about it.” The more urgent question is: What do the Democrats know now?
Memo to Democrats: Muslim men are plotting another terrorist attack on America right now! That’s what you know. What are you doing about it? Directing airport security to keep searching white paraplegics at the airport?
(2) It was the Clinton administration’s long line of appeasement and brave Aspirin-factory bombing that convinced Al-Qaeda that the US was a paper tiger that would curl up and die in the face of terrorist aggression. If the “feminist” party in the country had just abandoned the President who sexually exploited a woman his daughter’s age, maybe we would have had someone sitting in the Oval Office with the political strength to respond to brazen acts of war.
