Have you heard this one?

We were listening to our local AM talk radio (sorry, no audio clips available) and they were interviewing Mansoor Ijaz, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a FOX News Channel foreign affairs and terrorism analyst. In a discussion on Clarke's charge that Bush didn't act on the terrorism threat, he said:

• Clarke & Co. had outdated thinking.
  
• Clarke & Co. were focused overseas. No plan for an attack on the homeland. A new, more comprehensive plan was required.

the usual stuff, but then he said:

• The world changed when the USS Cole was attacked. That meant a new plan was required. (Wasn't the world supposed to have changed on 9/11? Now we learn there were two "world changing" events.)

and then he said ....

• The Bush administration had a slow start fighting terrorism because of the delay in settling the 2000 election.

Man, what a sorry excuse.

posted by Quiddity at 3/24/2004 09:14:00 AM