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...Clinton nor the Bush team had a clear, well-defined strategy for fighting terrorism. It just wasn't a priority. Clinton finished his second term focused on securing a Middle East peace, and Bush came into office thinking more about Beijing and Moscow than Afghanistan. And to the extent that either team focused on terrorism, both believed that the chief threat was to U.S. troops overseas, not everyday civilians at home. Those who did worry about al-Qaeda often worried alone. In December 1998, CIA Director George Tenet told his lieutenants, "We are at war. I want no resources...
...expects his teaching experience to inform his outlook as a student—though to what extent he is unsure, he says...
...concern is not simply with layoffs, my concern is restricting the range of our various projects so that a staff that has to be cut to some extent can do everything,” she said. “We’re not just reviewing the numbers that the staff costs us, but also the projects that are going that represent cash out of our budget elsewhere...
...military action failed to achieve. The Israelis say the "hudna" simply gives them breathing space to reorganize and rearm, and that without a crackdown the resumption of terror is inevitable. The differences over how the Palestinians proceed on the security front appear to be intractable, at least to the extent that they're left up to the Israelis and Palestinians themselves to resolve. President Bush will now be forced to not only act as promoter and referee in the peace process, but as choreographer and ringmaster. And that's unlikely to be a comfortable role...
...sore point for the White House for some time. Though members of his staff have been fumbling to answer questions about the bum information, the President was smart enough to stay miles away from an answer. He reasserted his main belief: that Saddam was a threat. To the extent he answered the question at all, he merely said: "There's no doubt in my mind that when it's all said and done the facts will show the world the truth. There's going to be, you know, a lot of attempts to try to rewrite history...