Clinton ignore's radical Islam

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isn't that the clinton doctrine....ignor radical islam and everything will be ok....

Ok, Im not drawing attention to you specifically, but I am going to use your statement, simply because it is the most recent.

It is a common talking point of the Right.

"Clinton did nothing to fight terror."

It actually appears Bush did nothing to fight terror, until after 9/11.

As the Clinton administration drew to a close, Clarke and his staff developed a policy paper of their own, the first such comprehensive effort since the Delenda plan of 1998. The resulting paper, entitled "Strategy for eliminating the threat from Jihadist Networks of al Qida: Status and Prospects." reviewed the threat and the record to date, incorporated the CIA’s new ideas from the Blue Sky memo, and posed several near-term policy options.
Clarke and his staff proposed a goal to “roll back” al Qaeda over a period of three to five years. Over time, the policy should try to weaken and eliminate the networks infrastructure in order to reduce it to a "Rump group" like other formerly feared but now largely defunct terrorist organizations of the 1980's.
"Continued anti al Qida operations at the durrent level will prevent some attacks," Clarke's office wrote, "but will not seriously attrit their ability to plan and conduct attacks." The paper backed covert aid to the Northern Alliance, covert aid to Uzbekistan, and renewed Predator flights in March 2001. A sentence called for military action to destroy al Qaeda command-and control targets and infrastructure and Taliban military and command assets. The paper also expressed concern about the presence of al Qaeda operatives in the United States.” [p. 197]

http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/index.htm
http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf

The commission, which consists of seven Republicans and seven Democrats, released a report precisely two years before the 9/11 assault titled, "New World Coming," that predicted a major terrorist attack on the United States. Two followup reports were issued, the last in February 2001, that also warned of the specter of terrorism and called for an overhaul of the U.S. national security infrastructure established in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the Cold War. The reports are available online at
www.nssg.gov.

http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/d...r&[email protected]


February 15th 2001

●The United States will become increasingly vulnerable to hostile attack on the American homeland, and U.S. military superiority will not entirely protect us.

● Rapid advances in information and biotechnologies will create new vulnerabilities forU.S. security.

● New technologies will divide the world as well as draw it together.

● The national security of all advanced states will be increasingly affected by the vulnerabilities of the evolving global economic infrastructure.

● Energy supplies will continue to have major strategic significance.

● All borders will be more porous; some will bend and some will break.

● The sovereignty of states will come under pressure, but will endure as the main principle of international political organization.

● The fragmentation and failure of some states will occur, with destabilizing effects on entire regions.

● Foreign crises will be replete with atrocities and the deliberate terrorizing of civilian populations.

● Space will become a critical and competitive military environment.

● The essence of war will not change.

http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/nssg/PhaseIIIFR.pdf

Richard Clarke helped shape U.S. policy on terrorism under President Reagan and the first President Bush. He was held over by President Clinton to be his terrorism czar, then held over again by the current President Bush........

Clarke was the president's chief adviser on terrorism, yet it wasn't until Sept. 11 that he ever got to brief Mr. Bush on the subject. Clarke says that prior to Sept. 11, the administration didn't take the threat seriously.

"We had a terrorist organization that was going after us! Al Qaeda. That should have been the first item on the agenda. And it was pushed back and back and back for months.

"There's a lot of blame to go around, and I probably deserve some blame, too. But on January 24th, 2001, I wrote a memo to Condoleezza Rice asking for, urgently -- underlined urgently -- a Cabinet-level meeting to deal with the impending al Qaeda attack. And that urgent memo-- wasn't acted on..........

.......By June 2001, there still hadn't been a Cabinet-level meeting on terrorism, even though U.S. intelligence was picking up an unprecedented level of ominous chatter.

The CIA director warned the White House, Clarke points out. "George Tenet was saying to the White House, saying to the president - because he briefed him every morning - a major al Qaeda attack is going to happen against the United States somewhere in the world in the weeks and months ahead. He said that in June, July, August."

Clarke harshly criticizes President Bush for not going to battle stations when the CIA warned him of a comparable threat in the months before Sept. 11: "He never thought it was important enough for him to hold a meeting on the subject, or for him to order his National Security Adviser to hold a Cabinet-level meeting on the subject."

Finally, says Clarke, "The cabinet meeting I asked for right after the inauguration took place-- one week prior to 9/11."

In that meeting, Clarke proposed a plan to bomb al Qaeda's sanctuary in Afghanistan, and to kill bin Laden.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/19/60minutes/main607356.shtml

President Clinton developed the nation’s first comprehensive counter-terrorism strategy and triple the federal budget for fighting terror....

http://www.clintonfoundation.org/111404-nr-cf-fs-on-the-clinton-gore-administration.htm

Both President Clinton and Vice President Gore were deeply committed to preventing and fighting terrorism at the highest levels; both played a hands-on role in articulating our counterterrorism strategy and both pressed our agenda with foreign leaders on innumerable occasions.

http://www.newamericanstrategies.org/articles/display.asp?fldArticleID=48


Its pretty obvious that Billy did ALOT more than 'nothing' to fight terrorism.

You can continue to blame Clinton for a terrorist attack that happened early in Bush Jr's Presidency, but then its only fair to blame Bush Sr for the World Trade Center Bombing on February 26th 1993, since Clinton was only President for 38 days.