Monday, July 26, 2004
Richard Clarke Agrees
Last Wednesday I posted my opinion concerning the war in Iraq and its effect on our country's safety. Basically, my opinion is that the war has not made us safer and the money spent on the war could have been better allocated to beef up security here at home. Well it seems that Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism chief in President Bush's National Security Council, agrees.
I like it when things work out this way.
- Americans owe the 9/11 commission a deep debt for its extensive exposition of the facts surrounding the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. Yet, because the commission had a goal of creating a unanimous report from a bipartisan group, it softened the edges and left it to the public to draw many conclusions.
Among the obvious truths that were documented but unarticulated were the facts that the Bush administration did little on terrorism before 9/11, and that by invading Iraq the administration has left us less safe as a nation. (Fortunately, opinion polls show that the majority of Americans have already come to these conclusions on their own. )
I like it when things work out this way.
