The causes of 9/11

Five years after the attacks on September 11, 2001, the country and the media took a long look back at the attacks and noted the importance of the events. Perhaps one can tell the importance of an event by the amount of time people spend on remembering an event.

More than 200 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence the country annually celebrates the birth of the country. For more than 40 years the country has looked back on November 22 to remember where they, or the country, was on that fateful day.

Part of the fifth anniversary events surrounding the 9/11 attacks was a so called docudrama on ABC, called the Path to 9/11. According to news reports, the show seeks to blame the Clinton administration for the attacks, in part suggesting that the administration was preoccupied with Monica Lewinsky.

If correct, that reflects just as badly, or worse, on conservatives and the media for they are responsible for the excessive time spent on Whitewater/Monica. One has to wonder if the resources spent on this meaningless event were spent on finding and fighting terrorism, could 9/11 have been prevented?

Conservatives may argue that it was important to investigate but that argument falls flat when one considers how little was made of the fifth anniversary of the impeachment hearings of President Clinton. Oh, a few in the media remembered the event, if only in their mind to justify what they had done.

So if there was little or nothing to the Clinton investigations and conservatives believe that Clinton was preoccupied with the investigations, and that preoccupation with the investigations kept the U.S. from preventing 9/11, then doesn't it stand that those who pushed the investigations helped set the stage for 9/11?

So if we are going to assign blame, will the GOP, conservatives, and many in the media be held accountable for their role in allowing 9/11 to happen?