Safe Kaus

Mickey Kaus points to some clearheaded analysis of the Richard Clarke distraction and the whole 9/11 Commission sideshow. As someone else rightly pointed out, al Qaeda was responsible for 9/11, not Bush and not Clinton. Clarke's grandstand play of apologizing was as phoney as a $3 bill. There were others who feared another attack, just as he did if not more. John O'Neill, for example. The problem is that we've created in Washington a system that is so focused on politics, both personal and party, that it is disfunctional when it comes to real threats. No number of commissions and bureaucratic reallignments can change that. I think that's what Bush has been thinking all along, which is why he didn't fire his intelligence and FBI chiefs. While the rest of the country is second guessing and debating over what should have been done, what we should be doing is ignore all the chatter and focus on what we as citizens should be doing to help our government and our military to protect us. What we are doing instead is bickering and blaming and basically acting like spoiled children, because some of us can't stand the thought of not having the power they consider their due. Democrats are projecting their own love of power onto George Bush and anyone who supports him.