I agree with your evaluation of Clinton's actions wrt Somalia and Sudan, Makk. Wes Clark on Meet the Press yesterday was talking about how frustrated he was that no matter what kinds of reports and recommendations he submitted, they wound up sitting by and watching 800,000 people get hacked to death with machetes. And the attack on Sudan's supposed chemical weapons factory, which turned out to be a pharmaceutical plant, was a crime. Wiped out half their drug supply. Who knows how many innocent people that killed? I picture some poor fucker dying of a tooth infection in the desert.
Sudan, by way of fence-mending, offered the US thick files on al Qaeda, which the Clinton administration felt it necessary to reject, seeing as how we were enemies and all.
But I think around the time of the USS Cole attack, Clinton got serious about fighting al Qaeda. Sadly, it was a little late, and the Bush admin was not too interested in carrying on the work. And the rest is history.
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