Reaping The Whirlwind
Hugh Hewitt has a great analogy on the attempts to lay the blame for not properly dealing with Al-Qaeda (and possibly preventing 9/11) at the feet of the Bush administration:
Clarke et al can scream from now until November that 9/11 was Bush's fault and that he was a superman who could have stopped the war before it began and won the war had he only been given the tools. It is fantasy-land stuff, as though Lord Halifax had criticized Churchill in 1940 for failing to prevent the fall of France. Such a charge would have diminished the Chamberlin ally Halifax, not Churchill, and Clarke's carping only reminds people of one of the many problems Bush inherited in 2001 --a career staff riddled with desk generals and paper shuffling seminar leaders.
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