to conservatives who say diplomacy doesnt work, why was there much more peace under clinton?

Question

im not saying everything was perfect, but compared to bush it was like a walk in the park.

Answer 1

because they lie and try to perpetuate the lie

Answer 2

Peace????

What about Kosavo and Rwanda?

After the 1993 World Trade Center ( NY) bombing, which killed six and injured 1,000;

Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.


After the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed five U.S. military personnel;

Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.


After the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 and injured 200 U.S. military personnel;

Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.


After the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa, which killed 224 and injured 5,000;

Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.


After the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 and injured 39 U.S. sailors;

Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.


Maybe - just maybe - if Clinton had kept his promise, an estimated 3,000 people in New York and Washington, D.C. that are now dead might be alive today.

AN INTERESTING QUESTION:
This question was raised on a Philly radio call-in show.

Without casting stones, it is a legitimate question.

There are two men, both extremely wealthy.

One develops relatively cheap software and gives billions of dollars to charity.

The other sponsors terrorism.

That being the case, why was it that the Clinton Administration spent more money chasing down Bill Gates over the past eight years than they did on Osama bin Laden?

THINK ABOUT IT!
It is a strange turn of events.

Answer 3

Peace under Clinton?

A lot of things were not made a big deal of.... Media Biased and so on. Clinton wasn't that good.

Lets see..

He bombed Serbia and Bosina from 1993 -1999.

There were several terrorstic attacks on his watch, in the U.S. and around the world against US Citizens and US Interest.

Hundreds of thousands of people died in Rawanda and he did nothing.

Israel had its worse suicide bombers duing that time frame.

He bombed Iraq a second time, we were fighting in and out from 1991- 1998

Somalian civil war from 1992 - 1994 and US soldiers heavily involved during that time frame.

Haiti we provided a blockade and had troops there from 1994 - 1996

1996-97 we had Marines in Zaire Refugee camps

1997 Albania we sent troops to evacuate foreigners

1998 We bombed Sudan

Clinton was not a good pres. and the rest of the world thought he was a joke.

I guarantee if Ronald Reagan was around these terrorist wouldn't be pulling this crap. He would of done the same thing Israel is doing but used Nukes instead.

Answer 4

Well I think you missed something there. Maybe it was pacifism on Clinton's part that contributed to 911. If you will remember the USS Cole was bombed during the Clinton administration. This was later attributed to Al Quida. Clinton might have investigated it but nothing was every done about it. Maybe if he'd have gone after the terrorists then they might have withdrawn somewhat and not tried the 911 event. But they got away with it and got a little more confidence and who knows. Sometimes it's easier for politicians to just leave it for the next guy to solve the problems rather than soil your own reputation.

Answer 5

Because people didn't highjack planes full of Americans and ram them into more Americans during Clinton's run.

If Bush had sat on his hands and did not take action like many people on here seem to want... you'd all be saying "Does anyone else think Bush stinks for not defending the country?" that's if you hadn't been killed by a terrorist.


I find it funny though that Clinton kept trying to find his "Legacy" and then as soon as Bush is in he gets what Clinton would have loved.

Answer 6

Clinton had a foreign policy, he actually engaged in dialogue with other countries. Bush just sits around like a crash test dummy till something really goes wrong like 9/11, and then reacts full force creating mass hysteria among Americans (as you can see from the responses here). He doesn't know what being proactive means. No one in the world considers idiotic superciliousness as diplomacy, hence Bush has no leverage.

Answer 7

You make the dumbest remarks of any liberal on here! The reason Bush has to go through all this turmoil is because Clinton kissed everyone's butt and was chicken. The same mistake Carter made when he was president, Reagan had to come to the rescue! Clinton also had "diplomacy" with North Korea, where has that led to? I also like a quote from the 'perverted' one when we lost military personnel to terrorists, "We will find them and bring them to justice". That was as far as it went, no one was found, and there was no justice! He did NOTHING!!!

Answer 8

Because Clinton didn't fight. He tried diplomacy, or telling people to stop doing wrong or bad things. When they didn't stop, he told them to stop again. When they STILL didn't stop, now it was serious, so he told them they REALLY should stop. When they finally still did not stop, he gave up and went on to other stuff, letting the bad things happen anyway. All in all, less conflict, no fighting and seemingly more peaceful. But, like was previously said, ask the victims of the bad things if was it a peaceful solution or not.

Answer 9

Clinton's administration had just as much turmoil, and as you have read above..many examples of this..... Lets put it another way though.....everybody criticizes Bush for so called being AWOL and having the nerve to send troops to Iraq. Clinton avoided all service by running to England and getting his waiver like Cheney and some other republicans...could you imagine the outcry if Clinton sent troops to fight a real war.....I can because I see it every day........Bush does what he does because he believes it is right for the country...Clinton did what he did to save his own image.

Answer 10

Peace? Did you miss all the terrorist attacks? The first Trade Center bombing, the Cole, the African embassies, etc. Not to mention the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, the continuous Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israel, Arafat saying "NO" when Clinton offered him everything he wanted. What about the continuous wars and genocides in Africa? What peace?

Wake up to reality. Diplomacy does not work, and never has. It is staggering that in this "information age" people can so completely blind themselves to truth and reality.

Answer 11

While I am a conservative, I do not share this view. In fact, President Bush probably does not either.

Yes, it is better to TALK, than SHOOT. But the shooting begins when that talk becomes non-productive and the "enemy" gets dug-in for a better position to harm us.

Certainly, we did not attack the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Terrorism won't stop without taking action. We must remember our the loss to families and friends , the losses of our Fire Department, Police Department and solders who are in harm's way.