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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: carranza2 who wrote (128812)4/10/2004 7:51:09 AM
From: tekboy  Read Replies (7) of 281500
 
ever hear of the concept of contributory negligence? the folks at the White House and elsewhere in the national security bureaucracy are supposed to do what they can to protect us from our enemies. they knew al Qaeda was an enemy for a long time before 9/11, and although they tried reasonably hard to stop it, they did not ultimately succeed. we could and should have done more; that's obvious in retrospect, and some were saying so beforehand as well. we don't have to be Japanese about this, but a certain degree of adult maturity consists in accepting responsibility for the consequences of one's actions (or inactions). President should have done it, not Clarke.

tb@gottarun.com
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