Path to 9/11 follow-up
September 12th, 2006 ~ Current eventsFor those of you who didn’t have the four-plus hours to kill to see “The Path to 9/11″, and who couldn’t make heads or tails out of the allegations of Clinton administration alumni who pitched such a fit over it, here’s a cartoon by Michael Ramirez that boils everything down pretty concisely. Link is HERE. (By the way, can I be a name-dropper and say I went to college with Michael Ramirez? Thank you.)
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September 12th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Way cool you went to college with Michael Ramirez.
I didn’t have the four plus hours to kill, plus I lived through 9-11 and the aftermath, I don’t need to see a fictionalized account of it.
September 12th, 2006 at 11:32 pm
Well, you’ve been hanging around here long enough to know that I’m pretty conservative, but I still think that the whole “fictionalized” thing has been blown way out of proportion. It wasn’t some hack piece, and the inaccuracies that I’ve heard of are just cosmetic. I don’t know why ABC didn’t work harder to get some of the support data right, but if you took all of that away and only left the things that are historic fact, you’d have:
* that during the previous administration’s eight years we had an escalating series of terrorist attacks on Americans, starting with the 1993 bombing of the Trade Center
* that the official response was to ignore the attacks or make speeches with pat references to outrage. (Oh, I forgot. Clinton did respond once. He blew up an aspirin factory in Khartoum, for which he was burned in effigy everywhere. So much for the love of the global community.)
* that the terrorists responded to this non-response by building their coalition, funding their efforts, establishing training camps and laying better and better plans for better and better attacks
– you’d still have “the path to 9/11.”
I think the perception has been that this is just partisanship and none of this matters right now. But I think it’s entirely germane to the current war — we have to at least once look back and honestly realize that the kind of foreign policy that seems the most civilized and elegant is what has allowed radical Islam to grow and spread.
September 13th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
You are right, I actually lumped all of the 9-11 memorial shows together - the movies, the live feeds, the Path to 9-11.
I think everyone botched it, but I also think that we bear a bit of responsiblity for actually funding OBL at one point as well. It’s a tangled web we weave, and no one steps away looking perfect and no one steps away with all the blame either.