In his final weeks in office, Clinton focused intensely on the tantalizing prospects, ultimately unfulfilled, of reaching a Mideast peace deal. A U.S. attack in the region almost certainly would have destroyed those fragile hopes.

WRONG! In his final weeks in office Clinton pardoned TERRORISTS!!!!!!!!!!!

Clinton failed to stop bin Laden because that was a job for a real man. He was totally unqualified for it. So he did what he was qualified for: schmoozed donors, got BJs from interns and patted himself on the back for fooling all the suckers and getting away with it.

Clinton did not have the necessary moral authority to send our troops into substantial combat - and he knew it. He was hamstrung as Commander in Chief by his pathetic personal failings.

But nothing the Clinton administration did over 8 years -- FBI investigations, a cruise missile strike against Afghanistan and Sudan....

All of the military strikes under the Clinton administration were designed to take the heat off of him domestically. Bin Laden was the last thing on his mind.

Experts say he (Bin Laden) drew similar conclusions -- that superpowers could be vanquished, sometimes with surprising ease -- from the limited U.S. response in Somalia.

There you have it. Klintoons weak-kneed response emboldened Laden. Klintoon the Enabler.

EVERYTHING in this piece of crap is weighted to excuse clinton. Surprised the byline doesn't read: WJ "Kiss It" Clinton.

Somebody missed a major BARF alert. No names please. Its such a pathetic exercise in re-writing history that I choose not to take it apart. Just pathetic.

The Sink Emperor was too busy with other personal matters...

The constant here is the complaint that they lacked sufficient "intelligence". That failing lay directly at Clinton's feet. No beefing up of intelligence to counter this obvious threat remained the sad fact of the situation right up to Sept. 11. Bush may be a little at fault here too, though Clinton had many years, while Bush had only a few months with new people. The Clinton legacy lives on.

"Sink Emperor" --That was good!--- LOL

There is a very simple answer------Wm. J. Clinton was a------COWARD.

or a pu$$y and a coward.

This article seems to be unusually harsh on Clinton for a paper like USA Today but it's ridiculously slanted to minimize many of Clinton's worst acts. Parts are laughably false:

some Clinton advisers worried that military strikes would be seen as a ploy

This is not believable. Clinton's advisers were not concerned about destroying an aspirin factory on no evidence at Clinton's most politically vulnerable hour.

[Clinton]: I don't think I was either stupid or inattentive.

Clinton was nothing if not stupid and inattentive. They were his defining characteristics.

Military action seemed inherently difficult. Clinton's reluctance to use military force

Clinton used military force more often than any other President in US history.

Clinton is just a fun-loving partying yokel who wasn't close to being up to being any kind of a leader.

If I was in charge, I would have my Justice Department (headed by Joe Arpaio) put cuffs on klinton, tenet, gore, deutch, albright, reno, and just for sh!ts and giggles, hillary, too. They would be brought up on charges of treason. Of course they get a fair trial--they would be made up of Freepers! and the penalty for guilt would be death.

Then I would go after the feminist review boards that ruined our military, Bill Richardson, Hazel O' Leary, and all the other pissant low-level bureaucratic liberals in the military, justice, an energy departments. I'd put them in Levenworth or Joliet prisons (mixing them in with the general population) and I wouldn't look back. Not even once.

"Why Xlinton failed to stop bin Laden"

The same reason a shark won't stop (kill) a lawyer . . .

Professional courtesy

"Why Clinton failed to stop bin Laden"

Because Clinton takes care of his friends...

''I think Clinton was riveted in on 'the economy, stupid,' and didn't really follow foreign policy unless it hit him over the head,'' Johnson says. ''It took really a crisis and a drumbeat in the media suggesting he better pay attention to these things to get him to do so.''

Well, DUH.....

I guess that is why he put so many overseas miles on Air Force One.

Thank you for this post. I have it bookmarked as is a key documentation of the true legacy of IMPEACHED sick willy.