After Letting Osama Go 9 Times, Ex-Clintonite Complains Israelis "Fire First and Then Ask Questions"
The Clinton administration had 9 opportunities to kill Osama bin Laden. Hours before 9/11, Bill Clinton gave a speech in Australia bragging that, “I nearly got him once. I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have had to destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children, and then I would have been no better than him.”
Almost 3,000 people died. Over a hundred thousand died in the ensuing conflicts.
Now Leon Panetta, Bill Clinton’s former chief-of-staff who served various security roles in the Obama administration, which belatedly got Osama, has popped up to criticize Israel for being too ready to kill terrorists.
“You have to be able to verify to take time to make sure that information that you’re getting is accurate with regards to targets,” Panetta said on CNN “And I have to tell you that in the past, at least in my experience, the Israelis usually fire and then ask questions.”
That’s not true. Israel has a decision pipeline of its own. One that has cost the lives of Israeli soldiers including on Oct 7 where helicopters did not have permission to attack soon enough.
But do Americans really want the Democrat approach to national security in which the failure to get Osama bin Laden 9 times led to 9/11 or a willingness to actually take out the terrorists?
Under Obama, the onerous rules of engagement costs the lives of thousands of American soldiers.
And Leon Panetta’s old boss was bragging about his moral superiority about refusing to value the lives of Muslim terrorists and their family members in Kandahar over that of Americans.
That’s not morality, it’s a suicide pact.
During the 9th time when Bill Clinton once again refused to take out Osama bin Laden or even bomb the Taliban,
an unnamed official asked: “Does al-Qaeda have to attack the Pentagon to get their attention?”
And now you know the rest of the story.
100,000 dead because the Clinton administration “wouldn’t fire first”. Or second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eight or ninth.