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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: FaultLine who wrote (127294)3/24/2004 3:51:27 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
I was very pleasantly surprised today to hear Richard Clarke apologize to the American people for failing to stop 9/11, and ask for understanding and forgiveness. Admirable.

I certainly don't blame him for not being omniscient nor omnicompetent.

I would lay blame - if I can call it blame, maybe just causation - at the well-ingrained resistance, world-wide, against crossing the borders of other nations in order to go after terrorists whom they gave sanctuary. And we were all here during the debates about what to do about the Taliban in Afghanistan, and some treaty mentioned - if I recall correctly - by Kissinger - the Treaty of Westphalia? 1648? Which somehow made it illegal to interfere in other countries' personal business? And that it was up to the state sponsors of terrorism to clean up the terrorists.

Ring any bells, anyone?

I am not taking notes but maybe somebody else is -- are the people who are condemning the Bush administration for not using force against bin Laden sooner the same ones who condemn the assassination of Sheikh Yassin, or different? And are they also condemning the Clinton administration?

Or is it all being spun in the context of the 2004 presidential election, as it seems to me?
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