Saturday, September 04, 2004
Sigh
Don’t get me wrong, I know Clinton had many faults as a President. He was under the thumb of the corporate masters like all the rest. But he wasn’t wildly emptying out all the nation’s pockets to them like our current shill-in-chief. He did try to do his job from time to time.
I just find it interesting that he gets no public credit whatosever for the fact that at least two major terrorist attacks were actively prevented during his watch, including a Millennium plan to blow up the Los Angeles airport; and that he at least tried to reorganize the FBI to prevent terrorism, recognized Osama bin Laden as an important threat to the U.S., did all he could to stop him, and attempted to warn the incoming Bush administration about him. Meanwhile, Bush is worshipped for having (despite many warnings) utterly failed to prevent, or even to take any steps towards preventing, the horrific 9/11 attack.
Now if Gore had been President and continued the Clinton procedures and managed to prevent the World Trade Center disaster, we’d probably still hear the media and Congress daily accusing the Gore administration of being “alarmist,” “obsessed with terrorism/Osama Bin Laden,” “wagging the dog,” and all that line (just as they kept saying about Clinton), as they tried to continue dealing with the terrorists.
And if Gore hadn’t managed to prevent it, we’d likely still be hearing daily attacks on him for his massive failure, if indeed the Republican Congress hadn’t already tried to impeach him. No uniting behind our great leader on this one! Yet I expect that, unless obstructed by Congress, actual valid measures to prevent future terrorist attacks would almost certainly have been put in place by now – although we’re still waiting for the Bush administration to put anything in place other than P.R. And more, the event would have been absorbed into our history rather than being a still-open wound, since Gore wouldn’t have been milking it to push through every irrelevant bee he had in his bonnet.
Though it might not be such a bad thing to use it to justify developing non-petroleum energy sources. (Why don’t we hear anything about biodiesel? And why are we wasting what petroleum is left on stupid things like burning it up in engines? It’s more useful in making plastics and other areas where it might be harder to replace. All right, all right, that’s another subject.)
I just find it interesting that he gets no public credit whatosever for the fact that at least two major terrorist attacks were actively prevented during his watch, including a Millennium plan to blow up the Los Angeles airport; and that he at least tried to reorganize the FBI to prevent terrorism, recognized Osama bin Laden as an important threat to the U.S., did all he could to stop him, and attempted to warn the incoming Bush administration about him. Meanwhile, Bush is worshipped for having (despite many warnings) utterly failed to prevent, or even to take any steps towards preventing, the horrific 9/11 attack.
Now if Gore had been President and continued the Clinton procedures and managed to prevent the World Trade Center disaster, we’d probably still hear the media and Congress daily accusing the Gore administration of being “alarmist,” “obsessed with terrorism/Osama Bin Laden,” “wagging the dog,” and all that line (just as they kept saying about Clinton), as they tried to continue dealing with the terrorists.
And if Gore hadn’t managed to prevent it, we’d likely still be hearing daily attacks on him for his massive failure, if indeed the Republican Congress hadn’t already tried to impeach him. No uniting behind our great leader on this one! Yet I expect that, unless obstructed by Congress, actual valid measures to prevent future terrorist attacks would almost certainly have been put in place by now – although we’re still waiting for the Bush administration to put anything in place other than P.R. And more, the event would have been absorbed into our history rather than being a still-open wound, since Gore wouldn’t have been milking it to push through every irrelevant bee he had in his bonnet.
Though it might not be such a bad thing to use it to justify developing non-petroleum energy sources. (Why don’t we hear anything about biodiesel? And why are we wasting what petroleum is left on stupid things like burning it up in engines? It’s more useful in making plastics and other areas where it might be harder to replace. All right, all right, that’s another subject.)
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