Umm yes, we did. You might not have, probably because you were too enthrawled with the blowjob scandal to notice. The Kenyan embassy and the WTC were hit during Clintons term. The difference was, Ken Star and his bitches had everyone scowering Clintons personal life. Any mentions of a terrorist threat were met with cries of "wag the dog!" Remeber the huge ass kicking machine set into motion after 9/11? ALL of the intell they used to respond was gathered during the Clinton administration. Everything from find out who the hijackers were to where to bomb in Afghanastan. For 6 years a fella by the name of John O'Neil headed the FBIs counter terrorism unit. And for those 6 years, he warned of Al Quaida's potential. After the first WTC hit and the Kenyan Bombing, there were great strides made in what we knew, and there was freedom to use it. But, then there was the USS Cole in 2000. The FBI team was actualy sent back home by our Ambasador to Yemen because they were making too much progress, basicaly they stepped on the ambasodors toes. We've never realy heard much about it since.
"Terrorism is a new problem" is bullshit...but in a way it's not. The way it's being handled now is the new problem. More americans have been killed by terrorists in the past 5 years then in the past 224. The WTC attack was not a suprise, the warnings were just ignored. The afore mentioned John O'Neil, the guuy who knew more about Al Quaida then anyone in the country, left the FBI and became director of security at the world trade center, making no secret that he knew it was going to be hit again. He was right, and now he's dead, along with 2000 civilians and 1800 troops (and 26000+ Iraqi civilians) that didn't have to die.