WRL
Well...the right is right
Terrorists have been at war with the US since 1993
While Bill Clinton was President Bin Laden declared war on America, and this is what followed...
Somalia
Our response retreat, Our hasty withdrawal from Somalia emboldened terrorists to attack the U.S. homeland. Osama bin Laden cited the withdrawal from Somalia as a victory for Islamist forces
"You left the area carrying disappointment, humiliation, defeat and your dead with you"
and used it as an example for militants to follow when he “declared war” against the United States in 1996. Bin Laden said:
http://tinyurl.com/n3fug
"Your [US] most disgraceful case was in Somalia … However, when tens of your solders were killed in minor battles and one American pilot was dragged in the streets of Mogadishu, you fled.
Also in 1993 The first World Trade Center attack...
Our response, a local law enforcement issue
Khobar Towers...
Once again a standard law enforcement approach, this seems to be a lousy counter-terrorism strategy.
That still didn't get Clinton's attention, however In 1996 the government of Sudan, wanting to remove itself from the US state sponsor of terror list offered Osama Bin Laden to the US government. President Clinton turned down the offer.
According to a PBS frontline television interview with Sudanese President Umar Hassan al-Bashir, the Sudanese Gov. offered to keep Bin-ladin on a tight leash, even hand him over to the Saudis or Americans, The Saudis refused because of the problems he would create in their kingdom, The American refuseal came because we supposedly could not round up enough for an indictable charge. The man already known responsible for the attacks at the World Trade Center in 93, And Kobar towers that very same year!
President Clinton on the Bin Laden deal...
"At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.
Clinton's remark on tape
But...
Documents Show State Department warned the Clinton administration about Bin Laden in 1996
The State Department warned the Clinton administration in July 1996 that Usama bin Laden's move to Afghanistan would give him more fertile ground to spread radical Islam, according to newly declassified documents.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166004,00.html
More from Clinton on the Bin Laden deal...
"So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have.
"I tried and failed.” Chris Wallace interview Fox news.
Bin Laden left for Afghanistan, taking with him Ayman Zawahiri, considered by the U.S. to be the chief planner of the Sept. 11 attacks
However according to former CIA director of intelligence Larry Johnson,
"The Clinton Administration paid lip service to the notion of combating terrorism through some money added, but generally keeps it as a very low priority."
Tanzania followed
Once more our response was put on the back burner, a basic criminal investigation.
The USS Cole...
This time nothing happened...
Then after a meager 8 months in office, Bush had to deal with the escalation of the war Clinton ignored...
And of course our holiday from history was over.
President Bush's response was different, unlike Bill Clinton who did not visit the site of the first World Trade Center attack, Bush's showing was strong, and inspiring.
George W Bush 9/12 2001
Approaching this problem from a law enforcement only manner, as the Democrats did for a decade, only emboldens the terrorists, and invites increasingly devastating attacks. The war on terror is not a game of whack a mole, it's a cultural problem propped up by governmental tolerance and institutions, two of which are no longer with us. Now a great swath of the Middle East has a generation that can grow up free from the dominance of radical Islam. And as in Europe and Asia, we will look back with pride on our actions in the name of liberty and freedom, profit from our trade with these nations, and be safer in the long run.
While Bill Clinton was President Bin Laden declared war on America, and this is what followed...
Somalia
Our response retreat, Our hasty withdrawal from Somalia emboldened terrorists to attack the U.S. homeland. Osama bin Laden cited the withdrawal from Somalia as a victory for Islamist forces
"You left the area carrying disappointment, humiliation, defeat and your dead with you"
and used it as an example for militants to follow when he “declared war” against the United States in 1996. Bin Laden said:
http://tinyurl.com/n3fug
"Your [US] most disgraceful case was in Somalia … However, when tens of your solders were killed in minor battles and one American pilot was dragged in the streets of Mogadishu, you fled.
Also in 1993 The first World Trade Center attack...
Our response, a local law enforcement issue
Khobar Towers...
Once again a standard law enforcement approach, this seems to be a lousy counter-terrorism strategy.
That still didn't get Clinton's attention, however In 1996 the government of Sudan, wanting to remove itself from the US state sponsor of terror list offered Osama Bin Laden to the US government. President Clinton turned down the offer.
According to a PBS frontline television interview with Sudanese President Umar Hassan al-Bashir, the Sudanese Gov. offered to keep Bin-ladin on a tight leash, even hand him over to the Saudis or Americans, The Saudis refused because of the problems he would create in their kingdom, The American refuseal came because we supposedly could not round up enough for an indictable charge. The man already known responsible for the attacks at the World Trade Center in 93, And Kobar towers that very same year!
President Clinton on the Bin Laden deal...
"At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.
Clinton's remark on tape
But...
Documents Show State Department warned the Clinton administration about Bin Laden in 1996
The State Department warned the Clinton administration in July 1996 that Usama bin Laden's move to Afghanistan would give him more fertile ground to spread radical Islam, according to newly declassified documents.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166004,00.html
More from Clinton on the Bin Laden deal...
"So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have.
"I tried and failed.” Chris Wallace interview Fox news.
Bin Laden left for Afghanistan, taking with him Ayman Zawahiri, considered by the U.S. to be the chief planner of the Sept. 11 attacks
However according to former CIA director of intelligence Larry Johnson,
"The Clinton Administration paid lip service to the notion of combating terrorism through some money added, but generally keeps it as a very low priority."
Tanzania followed
Once more our response was put on the back burner, a basic criminal investigation.
The USS Cole...
This time nothing happened...
Then after a meager 8 months in office, Bush had to deal with the escalation of the war Clinton ignored...
And of course our holiday from history was over.
President Bush's response was different, unlike Bill Clinton who did not visit the site of the first World Trade Center attack, Bush's showing was strong, and inspiring.
George W Bush 9/12 2001
The fact is this is a cultural war, terrorists are breed this way through fundamentalists schools, and get it re-enforced with a steady bombardment of state run media, it's all day everyday , they have been created, and now we have the ability to change those institution's radicalizing this religion. For the first time in a long time, a huge swath of the Middle East has a generation with a chance to grow without radical Islam dominating their development. Its not a war against Islam, it's a war against the foundations of radical Islam. We need a 'Marshall plan' for these area's.
Approaching this problem from a law enforcement only manner, as the Democrats did for a decade, only emboldens the terrorists, and invites increasingly devastating attacks. The war on terror is not a game of whack a mole, it's a cultural problem propped up by governmental tolerance and institutions, two of which are no longer with us. Now a great swath of the Middle East has a generation that can grow up free from the dominance of radical Islam. And as in Europe and Asia, we will look back with pride on our actions in the name of liberty and freedom, profit from our trade with these nations, and be safer in the long run.
