Blinded by Hindsight
By Richard A. Clarke, the former head of counterterrorism at the National Security Council, is the author of “Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror.” (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 01/10/06):
FIVE years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, three years after the 9/11 commission report, and just weeks before a national election, the issues of what happened before those attacks have resurfaced. Suddenly, we are again witnessing heated disputes about such insignificant issues as whether the Clinton administration prepared a draft “strategy” or, alternatively, “a series of required decisions” about Al Qaeda for the incoming Bush administration.
This spectacle was set off by a partisan rewriting of history billed as a television docudrama and shown on the anniversary of the attack.… Seguir leyendo »