See the original Washington Times article, "Clinton calls terror a U.S. debt to past".

Clinton absolves us of sins for terror U.S. owes to past

"There are a lot of people that see the world differently than we do." - Clinton

There are a lot of people in the world who, like Clinton’s staff, regularly inhales and the al Quida through the Russian and Kosovo Mafia suppplies their counterparts in Western Europe. al Quida skimmed off $8 billion in the past decade. The trouble with Clinton is he never got beyond Rousseau’s "Noble Savage".

According to Clinton’s style of anecdotal history, anthropology, sociology and psychoanalysis rolled into one the 5000 who died and those who contracted anthrax have only Western male-dominated civilization to blame. It all started when the fairer-skinned brother Cain killed his darker skinned sibling Abel. Abel’s tribe never forgave Cain. Now the mind of Clinton catapults at the very least 4000 years, the longest jump on record. He lands in 2001. Too bad he didn’t land a little shorter, say 1992. Listening to Clinton lecture on history is like a flight across the country. There isn’t much in between.

From Clinton’s phantasmagoric remarks on the State of the Galaxy and the cheers of our future Foreign Service it sounds like a creepy script conceived the Walt Dipsey Studios, which you might not want to take easily frightened young children to see.

How are these fanatical Mujahadeen going to be brought down? By nurturing female special forces as portrayed in the movies in erotic tights armed with designer zap guns? A non-sequitor, but where would reason be today were it not for Clinton’s Wittgenstein study of the meaning of meaning as illustrated by the everyday word "is" and the feminists rubbery definition of "equality?"

What! these New Age loose screws tossing copies of "the Feminist Mystique" to 15th century testosterone-crazed sackers who are actually huge warts growing on horses’ backs?

If you still like multiculturalism it will come packaged for Halloween rather than Clinton’s May Day version.

The Mujahadeen don’t use Anacin or Prozac. They aren’t afraid of pain or death. They aren’t afraid of poverty. They take it as a typical Western insult when we drop food to their people or encourage our children to collect nickels for this three-pronged outreach whose objectives are to brighten up their lives with a holiday piñata, improve public health and education and bomb them into extinction until they give up Bin Laden. Between the choices, they chose bombs and Bin Laden. Call them unenlightened, but don’t call them to dinner. And don’t bank on their being easy converts to feminism. Imagine how quickly the German civilian population would have deserted by the millions had we only thought to drop winter clothing on the master race after the minor collateral damage to Dresden. Some countries and cultures take bad ideas of their own making seriously unlike the American electorate to whom ideas equate with advertising. To many Muslims it is just the attitude of bribe and condescension that started this Armageddon in the first place. But what does Clinton care? Everything to him is like a TV pilot.

We, not Clinton except as the Christ-figure who takes on the burden of our sins, who were the "tired, poor, the wretched refuse of (history’s) teaming shores" made the terrorists plow into the World Trade Center. Clinton may be the greatest huckster since politics was trotted out in the Fertilizer Crescent over 5000 years ago, but he suffers from short-term memory loss. Thank God he didn’t "pray" with former Secretary of Defense William Cohen before Cohen spoke to the Long Island Association last month or Cohen would have had a Epiphany and have justified Clinton’s disastrous foreign policy.

Luckily Cohen took the more circuitous route heavily used by retired politicians that ends up in confession and criticized the lack of action by his own subordinates to the very real threat of terrorism. It would be an insult to President Clinton if we don’t assume his cabinet appointees were carrying out his orders when they could get through to him between his telephone marathons with Monica Lewisky.

Cohen confessed that the nation’s military intelligence failed the country, and that it takes a long time to build strong intelligence worldwide. "Terrorists are like predators. They sit, watch, plan and go for the weak links,". He speculated that the terrorists will turn to biological weapons in future attacks. It certainly would have been helpful had he taken the first few hesitating steps in this long journey he foresees.

Cohen blamed the success of the recent attacks partly on the nation’s refusal to face the reality of terrorism. "We have been living in a land of illusion, one that has been lax in border control and immigration." Cohen and Clinton on the other hand, shared a suite during this period in the land of Oz.

Officials on duty as well as those retired tend to use the third person a lot about their momentous mistakes, irresponsibility and cover-ups that caused our unpreparedness. Cohen distanced himself as if he and Madeleine who led the ragtag intergrated army and suggested its strategy were really in a coma or on Devil’s Island for a decade and just washed up on these shores to hear the bad news. Cohen and his boss’s performance of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," may be legendary with Clinton playing Rip Van Winkle who dozes during his two terms and wakes up surprised to see that the picture of Osama Bin Laden replaced that of Jesse Jackson.

Without cramming, if Clinton could get 1 in 10 important questions right about the history either of the Balkans or the Hub of Islam, I’ll still vote for him when he runs for President of the World Federation of Sovereign Nations. I say that because given my age there’s a good chance I’ll be dead.

I know, dear reader, I had to make this lollapalooza up. Even Clinton knows when to keep quiet. Look how he’s stayed out the limelight while his foreign policy was self-destructing since January of 2001. But he just couldn’t resist any longer going back to the bordello where the staff fusses over him and his every fantasy is realized.

Andrew E. Carlan
Farmingdale, New York

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