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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
So as you continue to listen to the outpouring of hindsight, just remember that people protested when Bill Clinton tried to stop bin Laden early, and remember that many of the same people today defending the invasion of Iraq roundly criticized prior action against the same country.
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Someone showed me their USA Today copy, which says that the panel has criticised Bush and Clinton for sticking too long to "failed diplomacy", and not moving to "more effective military solutions".
If this is a fair reading of what the panel said, it sounds . . . naive and off-base. As your quote shows, Clinton got roundly jumped every time he tried the military option, and, well, can you imagine now that the criticism of Bush has moved to, he wasn't unilateral and warlike enough?
Hindsight is fairly useless, but so much fun.
