Regarding former President Bill Clinton’s casual responses to terrorist attacks, his political advisor and pollster, Dick Morris, said in a National Review article on December 17, 2001: ” ‘He had almost an allergy to using people in uniform… he was terrified of incurring casualties; the lessons of Vietnam were ingrained far too deeply in him. He lacked a faith that it would work, and I think he was constantly fearful of reprisals. On another level, I just don’t think it was his thing. You could talk to him about income redistribution and he would talk to you for hours and hours. Talk to him about terrorism, and all you’d get was a series of grunts.’ ”
– Gerald Posner, Why America Slept, Page 123