I'm sure come three years from now, certain goose-stepping Bushites will be claiming that anything wrong is still Clinton's fault. But to get a slightly more sane view, here is what an actual journalist, headquartered in Jerusalem has to say:

...a few cell-phone threats from Osama bin Laden had prompted President Bush to withdraw the F.B.I. from Yemen, a U.S. Marine contingent from Jordan and the U.S. Fifth Fleet from its home base in the Persian Gulf. This U.S. retreat was noticed all over the region, but it did not merit a headline in any major U.S. paper. That must have encouraged the terrorists. Forget about our civilians, we didn't even want to risk our soldiers to face their threats.

Reagan got 240 Marines killed by leaving them in a ridiculously vulnerable spot in the Middle East, Clinton got chased out of Somalia. But neither one of those men would have allowed his "handlers" to fly him anyplace but straight back to Washington after an attack like this. Regardless of the hastily-concocted cover stories, what the world saw was a confused puppet reading from cue-cards, instead of the leader we need.