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Originally Posted by RyJ Maduro
This approach has clearly failed, as for decades jihadists hit American targets abroad, ratcheting up the intensity throughout the 90's as they struck the Khobar Towers, the USS Cole, and the World Trade Center while Clinton did nothing but throw the Blind Sheik in jail.
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Nothing, eh? Explain to me again why the Republicans were screaming "tail wagging the dog" when Clinton wanted to bomb terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. I recall that any time Clinton tried to pursue military options against the terrorists, the Republicans got in the way, saying that it was just a distraction from the Lewinsky affair or that Clinton could not certify this or that about which terrorist leaders were in which camps.
As for presidents doing nothing, remember that Clinton tried to tell Bush II that international terrorism would be his biggest problem. However, Bush II cut funding for antiterrorist efforts down to about the same level as SETI.
And explain to me exactly what Bush's war in Iraq has to do with terrorism. Never mind; you've never been able to come up with a good answer for that question, and you never will.