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This Is Good XXIII
Debra Saunders on Bill Clinton’s interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News this weekend, in which the former President demonstrated his performance anxieties all too clearly.
I don’t get it. If Bill Clinton is so smart, why has he made his failure to get Osama bin Laden the big story of the week twice in the last month?
Start with the ABC miniseries “The Path to 9/11.” I never saw it, so all I know about it is that Clinton thought it showed him to be too soft on bin Laden. Oddly, when Democrats were billing themselves as tough on terrorism, Clinton turned the spotlight on his failure to vanquish bin Laden.
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Read Richard Clarke’s book, the former president repeatedly admonished Wallace. Hmm. If Clinton wants to remind voters that his own National Security Adviser Sandy Berger pleaded guilty to sneaking out and shredding three copies of a Clarke memo about the growing terrorist threat in America, well, OK. Twist my arm.
That’s kind of been my problem all along, too. The lefty mindset instructs me to believe that former President Clinton “put Wallace in his place” during the interview, which, I guess, means I’m supposed to observe Clinton’s behavior and then make decisions about his administration’s actions regarding bin Laden. Okay. So I observe Clinton’s behavior, and ask, is this the behavior of someone proud of the actions he took and the decisions he made?
Well Christ on a cracker, are these people watching the same video that I’m watching? He’s saying “the entire military was against” going in and getting bin Laden…so under his leadership, we didn’t do it…sounds to me like a scathing indictment against groupthink. The President relied on consensus, and people died.
I’m just going with Clinton’s side of the story to get that. Those are his words. And that’s his behavior. It seems Bill Clinton has learned his lesson — it’s a real sore sticking-point with him — I just hope we’ve all learned ours.
Come to think of it, it seems to be beyond the point of disagreement, which is really saying something considering how divisive this whole thing has turned out to be — Clinton really did have opportunities to “get” bin Laden in one form or another, that the current President has not had. Well, it’s a matter of fact that under the leadership of Clinton’s successor, we’ve killed a lot of terrorists. How many dead terrorists under Bill Clinton’s watch? Are we ready to achieve agreement and unity on the notion that there’s a link between our safety and our liberty…and lots of dead terrorists? If so, wouldn’t it be nice for our image-conscious former President if he had some dead terrorists he could talk about?
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