No president has a very good record on radical Islam. And in my opinion, we will continue to fail that particular challenge until we, as a country, decide to quit trying to blame one president or party for the problem and instead, actually work together to solve the problem.
There are plenty of political topics we can argue about, but addressing the issues we (and the world) face concerning radical Islam is too important for us to play meaningless fingerpointing games over.
As for ABC's show...
I didn't watch it. Even before the issues of its accuracy came up, I thought it looked like they were creating a collection of events assembled as if they represented the only available choices and if they had today's after-knowledge. Even from the ads, it looked like they were viewing it all with 20/20 hindsight.
I find such drivel meaningless. ABC hurt its credibility by making an "entertainment" show out of it all, rather than putting it together as a documentary. Whatever truths were in their show, they lost in their attempt to get people to watch it. Even though the course of events in the show were, on the large scale, generally accurate (from what I read), the entire show can be dismissed as a "fictional re-telling of 9/11" because of the approach ABC used to film it.
Now, ABC is not the only media enterprise guilty of creating misleading, fictional, or openly virulent films, movies, and/or documentaries. CBS did a comparable hatchet-job on The Reagans (though the topic wasn't as serious as 9/11). Michael Moore created a wonderful piece hate that was entertaining for those who despise the president and his administration, but which had only a nodding acquaintance with the truth and which was quite obviously created with the intent to mislead and inflame. Heck, there's even a guy who made a wishful-thinking fantasy in which our current president was assassinated and the world magically got better because of it.
I don't care about any of those any more than I cared about the ABC movie, execpt to the point that I believe these kinds of programs hurt our ability to work together to resolve the problems we face. It IS fun to watch movies or read news that says what we want to hear, but it doesn't get us any closer to dealing with the issues we need to deal with.
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