July 23, 2004

ATTACK BIN LADEN? Sandy Berger -- once, twice, three-times, four times -- "no.". Attack a bin Laden camp? No. Why? Because "if [bin Laden] responds [to a U.S. attack] we're blamed."

The NY Sun: "According to the commission report, Mr. Berger was presented with plans to take action against the threat of Al Qaeda four separate times � Spring 1998, June 1999, December 1999, and August 2000. Each time, Mr. Berger was an obstacle to action. Had he been a little less reluctant to act, a little more open to taking pre-emptive action, maybe the 2,973 killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks would be alive today ..

[Berger's] background as a trade lawyer and his dovish, legalistic and political instincts made him, in retrospect,the tragically wrong man to be making national security decisions for America in wartime.That Senator Kerry had Mr. Berger as a campaign foreign policy adviser even before the archives scandal is enough to raise doubts about the senator�s judgment."

Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack