Clinton Candor?

You have to admit, this portion of Mr. Bill's University of Minnesota speech last weekend does explain a great deal of how we ended up in the GWOT:

Ex-president Bill Clinton is arguing that tighter immigration laws are hurting America, saying the new restrictions aren't worth it even if they stop the "one out of a zillion [foreigners] who might have a bomb."

"I'm very worried that one of the consequences of our tightness on immigration and visas as a result of 9/11 and terror, has led to a drop in many places of the number of foreign students coming to the United States to study and be graduate students," Clinton told an audience at the University of Minnesota on Saturday.

He said the U.S. needed foreign students because "we are nowhere near graduating enough scientists and engineers to maintain, given the size of our economy, a leadership role in the global economy."

Clinton said the terror trade-off wasn't worth it.

"Foreign students" who take their scientific and engineering training back home to, at best, compete against us in the global economy and, at worst, help design and manufacture weapons of mass destruction for enemies bent on our destruction.

Obviously for Sick Willie, the "terror trade-off" never was "worth it." That he can say so after 9/11, Bali (twice), Madrid, London, and as France goes up in flames renders impenetrable ignorance inadequate as a plausible explanation for such a mindset.

And with his wife warming up in the 2008 on-deck circle, that's a mindset that we dare not let go unvillified.