Straw-maning or not, Ronnin has an almost salient point. It is extremely distasteful to me, to the point of disgust, that drama and ratings are more important to ABC than accuracy. I believe that any network or production company making a piece about 9/11 owes it to the American public to be as accurate as possible. The truth is dramatic enough - no need to play it up.
Knowing you to be "Left" and considering myself to be more "Central" than either "Left" or "Right", consider these
Quotable Rights. You may be very surprised to find that some of your favorites from Fox News have been quoted as saying that the "docu-drama" shouldn't include falsehoods.
There is one problem that I have with all of this. The truth is that subsequent to the first WTC bombing (the one in 1993) and also subsequent to the bombing of embassies in Africa (1998) we (the US) had opportunities to take Osama Bin Laden out. We knew that Al-Qaida and specifically OBL were responsible for those previous attacks and would organize further attacks. Through spy planes and satelite imagery we located OBL and then did not act. We were paralyzed into inaction and that inaction cost us the opportunity to end the life of probably the most dangerous individual on earth.
Why were we paralyzed into inaction? IMO because Clinton had essentially become a castrated President in his last "lame duck" year. The Lewinski scandal and subsequent impeachment efforts had left him with about as much political clout as Carter had at the end of his term.
OBL should have died in 1999. I've had the pleasure of talking with US special forces stationed in the middle east during the time who have told me "we had him, and we didn't get the order to act". To this day, nobody in the Clinton administration has taken any level of responsibility for failing to find and eliminate OBL. The strategy is the same that it always seems to be for the Clinton inner circle when troubled times come - batton down the hatches, deny everything, have people wonder what the fuck is meant by "what is 'is'?".
Thus I can understand why ABC would take a certain artistic liscense in trying to fill in the blanks to try and make a movie about the events preceding 9/11/2001. You have the previous bombings, the intelligence reports showing opportunites, and yet the lack of results - or even of an effort made. Somewhere somebody along the line refused to give the order. Who it was we will never know because of how the Clinton administration does business.
Personally I would like to take a .45 and hold it to Clinton's temple and say "tell the truth mother fucker or I'll blow your brains onto the other side of the room - and that IS what IS". That's about the only fucking way anybody on this planet will ever get the truth out of that slimey piece of shit.
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