Have we forgotten we're at war?
Sunday, November 2, 2008 at 2:15PM T. Boone Pickens was interviewed by 60 Minutes, and when I visited the website to watch that video, another caught my eye. The video dated Oct. 22, 2000 featured an interview with Richard Clarke, President Bill Clinton’s national coordinator for counterterrorism. Watch the video and you’ll begin to see exactly how vulnerable we were. And part of the problem was media’s resistance to understanding exactly what we were facing. Clinton’s Lewinsky situation was media’s obsession at the time. Note the incredulous sometimes skeptical look on the interviewer’s face about some of the warnings Clarke mentioned. There's a big difference in approaches. And the murder of a 13-year-old girl reported by Amnesty International has much in common with our own vulnerability.
