Folks, don’t know about you, but this ol’ Okie’s gonna be watchin’ ABC this Sun. and Mon. evenings, unless it comes out that the network has totally capitulated to the Clintonistas and made major changes to the program — The Path To 9/11. Bubba himself is going ballistic, and so is Madeline Albright (screaming defamation) and other former Clinton officials saying “No fair!” and “Hey, it ain’t so!” Supposedly, the film is as critical of the incoming Bush administration as it is of Clinton’s so why all the fuss? Dean Barnett nails it:

AND THAT’S WHY THE “PATH TO 9/11” rubs salt in an old wound for them. Even though the current Democratic Party has long since parted ways with Bill Clinton philosophically in most areas of significance (e.g. free trade), when it comes to terrorism the continuum between the Clinton Administration and his Democrat descendants remains clear and intact.

For ten years, the Democrats’ policy has been to treat terrorism as a law enforcement matter – wait until a terrorist crime occurs, and then hunt down the terrorist criminals responsible for the act. This model sort of worked with the 1993 WTC bombing; the terrorists killed a few people, and were then brought to justice like any common killer would have been. The fact that their criminal enterprise attempted to kill 100,000 people and nearly succeeded didn’t dent the Democrats’ worldview.

But 9/11 changed everone else’s world view. It became apparent to most of America that we had to kill the would-be criminals before they actually became criminals. To most Americans, this was disquieting but a common sense necessity.

But the left never escaped its previous mindset. Liberals remain exactly where they were 10 years ago; desirous of a policy that waits for a terrorist act and then lets law enforcement mop up the aftermath.

The fact that people are talking about the Democrats’ attitude towards terrorism is horrifically damaging to the Democratic Party.

Docudramas are weird animals — part truth, part compressed truth, part fabrication and part artistic license. Obviously each and every event, line and mannerism depicted in this film won’t be 100% accurate. However, the historical record stands — Clinton never went all out in a retaliation for the Al Qaeda attacks on his watch, from “Black Hawk Down” in Mogadishu to the attack on the Cole, to the embassy bombings in Africa. He lobbed a few cruise missiles at a factory once. Funny, he thought that the Serbs were a greater threat to the world than bin Laden, or so his actions in eastern Europe would indicate.

The Left is like Jack Nicholsons’ character in A Few Good Men, they can’t handle the truth! (db)

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