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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Oh, and he got his meeting:
- Clarke finally got his meeting about al-Qaeda in April, three months after his urgent request. But it wasn't with the president or cabinet. It was with the second in command in each relevant department.
For the Pentagon, it was Paul Wolfowitz.
Clarke relates, "I began saying, 'We have to deal with [Osama] bin Laden; we have to deal with al-Qaeda.' Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, said, 'No, no, no. We don't have to deal with al-Qaeda. Why are we talking about that little guy? We have to talk about Iraqi terrorism against the United States.'"
(link to Yglesias article quoting CBS)
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Are you and I dealing with AQ Ty? We're talking about it.
See that's the point. What should be done is different from something should be done. You say- An administration in its first few months should have done more. But just like your conspiracy theories lack a motive, the "should have done more" theory lacks a "what." Also, I don't get how the failure to act on the same guy's plan for several years by Clinton isn't at least some feedback on how the plan was perceived by another administration.
