Claudia Rosett reminds us of just how inept and immature the Clinton administration actually was. Forget all of the speeches at the Democratic convention about their so-called good intentions. What matters in the end is what you actually achieve in the real world. And on Bill Clinton's watch a lot of things went very wrong. I sometimes think it is a pity that AlGore didn't get to inherit all of George W. Bush had land on his plate, if only to finally finish off the fantasy of liberal Democratic wishful thinking for good. But somehow the Democrats always manage to kick the can down the road thus requiring someone else to clean up the mess.
Mr. Clinton finished, of course, in January, 2001, by which time al Qaeda's training camps, on Mr. Clinton's watch, had already churned out thousands of terrorists we've been trying to catch ever since. By that time, the Sept. 11 plot was just eight months from completion; our intelligence community was if possible even dumber than it is now; Iran had already been working for at least half a decade toward its nuclear bomb; North Korea had already been cheating for years on Mr. Clinton's "Agreed Framework" nuclear freeze; Arafat's intifada had crowned the Clinton photo-op forays into the Middle East; and Saddam Hussein, having kicked out the United Nations weapons inspectors in 1998, was busy cashing in bigtime on the Clinton-launched United Nations Oil-for-Food program, buying influence and blackmail opportunities among our allies, some of them the very same allies Mr. Bush has alienated, pushed away, burned his bridges to . . .
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