| Remember the Algerian plot to fly a plane into the Eiffel Tower in 1995? France's intelligence was working. And they had agents who could speak Arabic, too.
Remember the Al Qaeda plot to fly a plane into the CIA headquarters in 1996? The best medicine is preventative, and I'm sorry to say that Clinton had a better anti-terrorist squad than Bush has now. The FBI's anti-terrorism squad's funding tripled under Clinton's reign. Republican pundits actually called him "obsessed" with getting Bin Laden and with terrorist acts in general, and complained to no end about his largely successful moray in Kosovo. The reasoning behind his failure in Somalia was because he didn't put enough troops on the ground. In fact, Samuel Berger's plan to root out Al Qaeda cells once and for all back in 2000 after the USS Cole bombing was given to the Condi and the Bush administration and sat on by them for 8 months until it was finally voted into practice - three days before Sept 11th.
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |