Before and up until 9/11, the terrorists were gradually escalating their attacks..various embassies blown up, USS Cole attacked and first WT Center bombing, in 1992.
Only word service was offered by the Clintons, they seemed to tink David Koresh and his band were a greater threat to the republic, so they burned them out..kicked the can down the road, so far as the terrorists were concerned..
Then c a failed attack on several airliners, flying across the Pacific. Then the undershorts bomber..and finally the big one on 9/11 !
We went into the ME, to keep them from bringing a great deal more terrorism from coming here.
Yes, it has been mishandled inmany ways...but we have not had a 9/11 attack since.
Yes, Obama and O'Biden have been far less than enthusiastic about prosecuting the aim, and they created log-jams, but they didn't pull out..until now.
The plan was to "fight terrorism there, rather than having to fight it here"!
Of course, none of this explains the stupidity recently demonstrated by the O'Bidens...
As soon as the Taliban can get their feet on th eground in Afghanistan and start rfaking in the mining money from Russia and the Chinese..we can expect more attacks here..
