Pressing the Point
Kudos to Wolf Blitzer for pressing Bill Clinton’s SecDef William Cohen on a point raised yesterday on Blitzer’s program by partisan Democratic hack Richard Ben-Veniste: the Clinton Administration had a long-term understanding with the Taliban regime in Afghanistan that if Osama bin Laden (i.e., al-Qaeda) attacked us again, we would target them.
So, Blitzer asked, why didn’t the Clinton Administration attack the Taliban in response to the murder of those sailors on the USS Cole? Clinton had at least a month after the so-called “certification” of Osama’s culpability —so why no action?
At first, Cohen had tried to hide behind the certification issue, but when reminded of his boss’ policy of attacking the Taliban itself, he spluttered out some garbage about how we didn’t want to go indiscriminately bombing innocent people and losing friends in the region.
Well, Bill, that’s an embarrassment, isn’t it? Because, if you people didn’t already have a target list of Taliban government and military installations —even if it was covered with a fine layer of dust— then that makes it even less likely that you clown college drop-outs had any plan at all to deal with the threat of al-Qaeda, which your finger-wagging boss claims to have left for his successor.
No more lies from your crew. Just shut up and take your lumps.
