Might not have been as inevitable as we resign ourselves to accepting.
It didn’t happen on Clinton’s watch. And he left instructions for the Bush Admin to treat Bin Laden as a major security threat.
Bush didn’t do jack shit to prevent it—he welcomed it. It was an open secret in the run up to the 2000 election that Bush wanted to find “any way” to invade Iraq. Simply not doing anything to prevent an Islamic terrorist attack would be enough justification for him to invade Iraq—entirely independent of Iraq’s culpability for the attack.
Might not have been as inevitable as we resign ourselves to accepting.
It didn’t happen on Clinton’s watch. And he left instructions for the Bush Admin to treat Bin Laden as a major security threat.
Bush didn’t do jack shit to prevent it—he welcomed it. It was an open secret in the run up to the 2000 election that Bush wanted to find “any way” to invade Iraq. Simply not doing anything to prevent an Islamic terrorist attack would be enough justification for him to invade Iraq—entirely independent of Iraq’s culpability for the attack.