It takes a strong stomach to read this

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	• Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror Rich Miniter Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2004 - 317 pages average customer review:based on 142 reviews view larger image
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This book should scare anyone

This is the first book I have read by Miniter. I have followed foriegn policy and terrorism since the late 70's. I felt I knew quite a bit of what there was to know about terrorism and foriegn policy but this book should scare anyone. I think it is illustrative of some of the depths of depravity terrorists will descend to and how they drag those without the intestinal fortitude to stand up to them down with them.

You will hear a lot of hand wringers and people without the stomach to fight the war on terrorism say a lot of things that are either wholly partisan, hateful or just plain inaccurate about this book. Read it, look at the footnotes, look at the references and decide for yourself.

I think Miniter nailed it, much as I hate that saying. Bill Clinton was concerned about terrorism but only as long as it could hold his rather short attention span. The bottom line is he never followed up and was too busy looking out for number one to keep his focus on what has become the #1 evil of our time.

Don't listen to the minions of the Leftist moon bats who regurgitate anything Michael Moore says ad nauseum and without the benefit of the first piece of serious research. Bill Clinton wasn't all that and he let us down. It wasn't just him, our entire government failed to recognize the threat for what it was and is. Many people still do not realize what we are up against or the dire consequences we will face if we do not stand up to this evil here and now.

Miniter did Clinton more than fair and nobody can call this a partisan hack job. At least not anyone who has a semi-open mind. Read it and make up your own mind. If it doesn't scare the bejeebus out of you, you weren't paying attention.

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It takes a strong stomach to read this

The last time I got sick reading a book was probably while in a car and I got motion sickness. Yet, this book made me physically ill. In this well-researched and thoroughly-documented book, Richard Miniter points out the repeated errors in strategy and lack of interest that Bill Clinton and his administration showed in capturing bin Laden between the time of the February 1993 World Trade Center bomb attack and the September 11th 2001 plane attack on the Twin Towers. Before the 9/11 attack which killed 3,000+ Americans, bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of 59 Americans with attacks on the World Trade Center, several U.S. Embassies, the U.S. Cole and other atrocities. Why was Clinton asleep at the switch? There are several reasons according to Miniter. Foremost was the president's constant fighting to save his political career while facing the Lewinsky and other sexual charges, illegal campaign contributions, and selling sleepovers in the Lincoln Bedroom. Interestingly, the day after Lewinsky admitted she had previously lied about having sex with the President (which meant Clinton had also lied), bin Laden's forces bombed two American embassies. Clinton now faced a two-war front: his political survival and his country's security. He chose to concentrate attention on the former. Sudan was ready to come to our aid by delivering bin Laden to the FBI at that country's airport. The fact that he did not accept that or any other offer from Sudan to silence bin Laden was, according to a quote from Clinton, "the greatest mistake of my presidency." As Miniter says in his introduction, "After reading the evidence in these pages, the reader can be the judge of that." I have two minor complaints about this book: There is a map, but it is too small. Much of the African-Middle East territory covered by this history is excluded. A bigger map with more information would be very helpful to the reader. Another aid would be a list of participants with a thumbnail sketch of each. Because there were so many people in the Clinton Administration involved, and because the Muslim names are so foreign to us, it is difficult to keep them straight. Such a list would also be very helpful. But beyond that, this is an eye-opener that every American should read. Hopefully, this book will become Clinton's legacy.

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Journalist Rich Miniter uses his unparalleled access to sources and stories throughout the Middle East, Africa, and the United States. He paints a devastating portrait of how close the U.S. military was to killing bin Laden--on multiple occasions--and how, each time, Clinton dropped the ball and allowed bin Laden to grow stronger and more dangerous.