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To: Dayuhan who wrote (61650)	12/14/2002 1:38:57 AM
From: paul_philp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Even if a hawk had been in power, for example, I don’t think we’d have gone into Afghanistan to go after al Qaeda. Before 9/11, the political will and the political support just weren’t there. It is a leaders job to build the political will and support. The bombing of the Cole was an attack on a military target. If the public didn't understand at first, it was Clinton's responsibility to explain it. Letting an attack on the military stand unanswered was a strategic error and a lapse of leadership. It is true that the country was looking the other way and did not want to deal with the reality of the Cole attack. That does not get Clinton off the hook. He was the guy sitting at the big desk in the Oval Office. Paul