Not only should John McCain compare Obama’s economic policies with the failed policies of the Carter administration (up and coming post), he should also compare his homeland defense policies with the failed policies of the Clinton administration.- 1993: World Trade Center Bombing
The World Trade Center bombing took place on February 26, 1993, when a car bomb was detonated below Tower One. The device was intended to knock the North Tower (Tower One) into Tower Two, bringing both towers down and killing thousands of people. It failed to do so, but did kill six people and injured 1,042.
The Attack was planned by a group of conspirators including Yousef, Abouhalima, Salameh, Ayyad, Rahman Yasin, and Ajaj. They received financing from Khaled Shaikh Mohammed, Yousef’s uncle. In March 1994, four were convicted of carrying out the bombing. The charges included conspiracy, explosive destruction of property and interstate transportation of explosives. And in November, two more were convicted, one being Yousef, the mastermind of the attack” (Wikipedia). - 1996: Khobar Towers
The Khobar Towers bombing was a terrorist attack on part of a housing complex in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia. It was being used to house foreign military personnel.
On June 25, 1996, members of Hizballah Al-Hijaz exploded a fuel truck next to the housing complex. The eight-story building housed US Air Force personnel. In all, 19 airmen and Saudis were killed and 372 of many nationalities were wounded
In June 21, 2001 and indictment was issued charging 18 terrorists with murder, conspiracy and other charges related to the bombing, most of those charged being Saudis.
The 9/11 Commission noted that Osama Bin Laden had been congratulated on the day of the Khobar attack (Wikipedia). - 1998: Embassy Bombings
August 7, 1998 the US embassies in cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzanie and Nairobi, Kenya were bombed killing hundreds of people simultaneously. These attacks were tied to local members of al Qaeda, and brought bin Laden and al Qaeda to the international community for the first time.
The Clinton administration sent cruise missiles into key locations in Sudan, where terrorists were believed to be located, but the only target damaged was a civilian pharmaceutical factory.
The investigation into the bombing was handled by the FBI and local authorities resulting in several men being charged with the bombing.
The son of Saddam Hussein of Iraq, following the bombings, praised Osama bin Laden. He called him “an Arab and Islamic hero.” A court in Afghanistan declared bin Laden “a man without a sin” following the bombing.
Twenty-one people were indicted in relation to the bombing: two were killed in war on terror since 9-11, since 2001 four are serving life without parole, three have been held in the UK since 1998/99, two are held in Guantanamo Bay, ten still at large including bin Laden (Wikipedia). - 2000: USS Cole
A suicide bomber attacked the USS Cole on October 12, 2000, while it was harbored in Yemeni. Seventeen sailors were killed, and thirty-nine were injured in the attack, orchestrated by bin Laden and al-Qaeda.
All those convicted in the attack escaped from prison or had been freed by Yemeni officials by May 2008.
Dr. Rice (national security advisor at the time) stated the decision not to respond militarily to the Cole bombing was President Bush's. She said he ‘made clear to us that he did not want to respond to al Qaeda one attack at a time. He told me he was 'tired of swatting flies.’The administration instead began work on a new strategy to eliminate al-Qaeda.
On November 3, 2002, the CIA fired a AGM-114 Hellfire missile from a Predator UAV at a vehicle carrying Abu Ali al-Harithi, a suspected planner of the bombing plot. Also in the vehicle was Ahmed Hijazi, a U.S. citizen. Both were killed. This operation was carried out on Yemeni soil.
On September 29, 2004, a Yemeni judge sentenced Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Jamal al-Badawi to death for their roles in the bombing. Al-Nashiri, believed to be the operation's mastermind, is currently being held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay detention camp.[26] Al-Badawi, in Yemeni custody, denounced the verdict as "an American one." Four others were sentenced to prison terms of five to 10 years for their involvement, including one Yemeni who had videotaped the attack.
On February 3, 2006, 23 suspected or convicted Al-Qaeda members escaped from jail in Yemen. This number included 13 who were convicted of the USS Cole bombings and the bombing of the French tanker Limburg in 2002. Among those who reportedly escaped was Al-Badawi. Al-Qaeda's Yemeni number two Abu Assem al-Ahdal may also be among those now on the loose. (Wikipedia) - 2001: 9/11
On the morning of September 11, 2001, an al-Qaeda orchestrated terrorist attack murdered 2,998 people in the United States. Terrorists hijacked four airplanes. They intentionally crashed two of those airplanes into the World Trade Center, which both fell, another into the Pentagon, and the fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania when the passengers attempted to stop the hijackers and retake the plane.
Following this attack, the United States declared the War on Terrorism and launched an offensive against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan (Wikipedia).
The policy of prosecution did not lead to an end of terrorism against Americans at home and abroad. Following the failed attempt to destroy the World Trade Center in 1993, al-Qaeda became stronger, more aggressive, and finally successful in terrorizing the United States. The small missile strikes used by the Clinton Administration and the indictment process used by his justice department did not threaten men who desired to destroy western civilization. They willingly used their bodies as weapons of war, so why would going to jail deter them?
The War on Terrorism, initiated by President Bush and his administration lead to the death and capture of not only those responsible for 9-11, but it also lead to the capture or death of those responsible for the embassy bombings of 1998 and the attack on the USS Cole as shown above.
An active, offense is the best defense. Since 2001 there has not been a terrorist attack carried out on US soil, nor against our military outside their service in war. The Bush Administrations War, ended the string of attacks led by bin Laden and al-Qaeda that ran through the Clinton years of prosecutorial indictments, and which culminated in the deaths of thousands 
of Americans on September 11, 2001.
Barack Obama and those in the Democratic Party would take us back to the failed policies of the ‘90’s. He would have us return to September 10, 2001, but, with his philosophy of defense, all that would lead to would be September 11, 2001.
The following link reveals Barack Obama’s defense plan. Pay close attention to his goals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfwKKxVC7_o&eurl=http://www.macsmind.com/wordpress/2008/02/27/obama-plans-to-disarm-america/
If Obama is elected president, we might as well give Iran all our nuclear weapons now. If we stop developing new weapons, if we take our nuclear system off alert, if we surrender our position as super power, we will return to pre-9/11 terrorist attacks. Worse than even that, we will find ourselves in a world controlled by rogue nations, which we are impotent to stop.
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