Richard Schultz, a professor at the Fletcher school of law and diplomacy and a national secular scholar and author, and a consultant to Rumsfeld's Pentagon, analyzes an interesting question in the Weekly Standard: why were special forces never used to go after terrorists? and the answer may not be what you would expect. The fault is indeed not with Clinton -- who ordered special forces be used just for this purpose several times; but with the Pentagon brass who resisted doing much of anything.

[Now one can see what Wes Clark was fighting all these years -- a Pentagon who didn't want to do very much except dated ground wars similar to Gulf War I.]

Posted by Laura at January 21, 2004 10:09 PM