Re: Clinton faults Bush for inaction on bin Laden
Re: Clinton faults Bush for inaction on bin Laden
It is laughable just reading this. "Its his fault!" "No, Its his fault!" Good lord people, do you even listen to yourselves? I hate to say it, but Osama was not hatched from an egg at the beginning of the Clinton administration. He and his ilk have been planning and doing their thing ever since we buddied up with Isreal and have been suckling the Middle East Teat. You can blame Clinton of Bush or whoever you want, but this has been brewing long before those two were in office. Why not blame Reagan? Our military weaponry was being sold to the people who are now our enemys during his administration, but no one cares? Why not blame Carter, Nixon, JFK? Heck, blame George Washington because if he hadn't gotten us into this Being Independant thing, we never would have been attacked.
Every president has fallen asleep at the wheel, and it will continue to happen. Could Clinton have done a better job, of course. Osama Bin Laden, while a threat, was not being percieved as the threat that he turned out to be. Also, it is naive and foolish to think if Bin Laden would have been dealt with back then that things would be all sun shiny and happy and rife with cheap gas. You do know that someone else would have made 9/11 happen, right? Bin Laden takes his orders from someone just like everyone else. Its the shadows behind the curtain we should be after, not the dirty cave dwellers that we see on CNN every night.
The two dimensional concept that all we have to do is keep killing terrorists and the world would be a better place is laughable. It is right up there with mowing a lawn with scissors. I agree that it is a problem. It has been a problem ever since mankind decided it needed to create seperation through religion and region. The current "strategy" not only is not working, but it will never work. A new strategy must be created, one that is more precise and does a better job of not alienating us fromt he rest of the world. The YeeHaw bunch thinks "Kickin' Arse, if your not with us your against us" policy is working. Its not, because there is no intelligence to it at all. No plan, no final outcome. Just run around and kick arse. Thats a plan....
BTW, our current decent economy is based almost entirely on short term fluff. there is nothing permanent about it. The tax cuts and interest rate cuts did boost things, but its like eating candybars. You get that burst of energy, but it is hollow energy that goes away fast, just like this economy. New home construction is falling, home purchasing in general is dropping because the costs of the homes kept climbing. Buy sell buy sell, that is all that has happened in the real estate market. Now people are stuck paying $ 300,000 mortgages on houses that will be worth $ 200,000 in a few years. The fuel costs are horrible, and will stay horrible. Low income families will continue to choose between gas and clothes or other necessities. I don't feel that the economy will tank and we will all be in cardboard boxes, but I do know that for the working class majority, things are not going to get better, and that can be blamed on the policies and decisions of this administration. It can also be blamed on those who continue to limit our ability to produce nuclear energy and expand our refining abilities.
It is not the republicans fault, or the democrats fault. It is the people in power who stand to gain financially, regardless of party. Quit whinning about dem and reps, we all know its about the Almighty Dollar....
