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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Norm Podhoretz is one of the most important conservative thinkers of our era. Merely lumping him onto the "neo-con" pile is ignorant, to say the least.
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Being a leader does not make him not a member. And you qualified "thinkers" substantially, didn't you?
But at least we could ask him to be honest. In Bilmore's article, his description of the Clinton administration's reaction to the first trade center bombing is affirmatively false. He says that the Clinton administration ignored experts who said that a network based in Sudan was behind the attacks. Which, of course, is why they bombed an aspirin factory in Sudan and why the administration insisted that there was a super-terrorist out there named Osama bin Laden while the rest of the world thought they must be on crack (including me, btw).
I also like how he quotes Dick Morris as credible, and how he pretends that all terrorist attacks by islamic groups over the last decade are both connected and the inevitable conclusions of our failure to act. It is good writing, to be sure, but it belongs in a novel.
And, btw, if we were doing nothing, why did bin Laden leave Sudan?
