Pressures And Demands On ABC To Fix Or Nix "The Path To 911" Mount

"ABC faced growing pressure Friday about its planned miniseries on the buildup to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Former Clinton administration officials, historians and a Democratic petition with nearly 200,000 signatures urged the network to scrap the five-hour drama." - Moderate Voice

Seems the blogosphere left, right and center is in a bit of an uproar over this issue.

I am absolutely no fan of the neoconservatives and their agenda. Their saber rattling and obsession over aggressive containment of China prior to September 2001 and their insistence in engaging in battle somewhere and fast after September 2001 bespeaks of the numerous flaws in their fundamental understanding of the world.

However, Bill Clinton and gang do not get a free ride here. To be certain, from a historical perspective Clinton did not "do much real harm". He was essentially ineffective and an embarrassment. To the man that much is given much is expected. You cannot live in the house, ride in the plane and wear the garb of leader and not be held to answer for your failures.

Now it seems Clinton (and his tax dollar supported staff) spend their days defending the legacy of the man and his time in our White House.

From Hot Air: "Let's spare a thought, though, for our friends on the left, whose justifiable paranoia about being seen as weak on terrorism has led them to ask not only that the offending scene be edited, but that the whole damned miniseries be shelved. Never mind that the executive producer's given money to Clinton, or that, according to Jamie Poniewozik of Time, it's much more damning of Bush than Clinton. There's a legacy at stake here."

Of course this all misses the point entirely. If Clinton had the opportunity (four of them it seems) to have Bin Laden killed would that really alter the course of events. I am a student of the Great Man Theory of history (as out of style as that is) but not dogmatically so. Some events and organizations develop an inertia of their own. Remove the leader and the inertia prevails. The reasons for the 9/11 attacks are deeper than one man and his convictions.

The point is that if ABC or anyone else is going to attempt to tell the story of 9/11 all the ugly facts have to be told. Any political whitewashing of the events, conspiracies, failures and causes is a waste of time.

Speaking of that, seems that the Senate released a report confirming what most of us already know; there was no connection between Bin Laden's group and Iraq before we invaded Iraq.

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