Sorry Charlie, Matalin is right, and Sandy Berger's day time trip to the Security Archives to remove incriminating materials proves part of it! The rest is common sense.
Clinton, after Hemming and Hawing for months, directed a missile strike on Al Queda in Afganistan after the first Towers attack, a point of fact!
The subsequent attack on the Towers was in retaliation for that event (we were deemed to be weak due to our actions in boogying out of Vietnam, doing nothing in Lebanon, and departing Mogadishu without looking back (Black Hawk Down))!
Plus anyone who really thought the DOT COM events were NOT a bubble waiting to burst, please stand up! That event took us into recession from which Bush extracted us, but tried and failed to change the Financial system in time to mitigate this recession, SOON to be DEPRESSION!
Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, and Bush ll are partially responsible for all of this!
But, the biggest culprit of all is OUR CONGRESS! THEY were here through all of this period with very few changes of personnel, passing laws, voting, holding meetings, justifying their individual actions, trying to look intelligent and being re-elected time after time.
It is our fault because WE kept sending these fools back, hoping they'd eventually get it right!