Yeah, we didn’t talk about it much either in the 1990s, when bin Laden used it as his launch pad to bomb the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, bomb the U.S.S. Cole, and plot other murder and mayhem against Americans. And besides not talking about it much, we also didn’t do much of anything about it.

Bush may not have caught bin Laden, but he chased him out of his comfort zone and decimated the upper tiers of his organization — often killing or capturing in a single day more jihadists than we managed to prosecute in the eight years between the bombing of the World Trade Center and the destruction of the World Trade Center. That wasn’t the Clinton approach, but hey, when you’re busy sorting through which FALN and Weather Underground terrorists to pardon, there just isn’t time to get to everything …