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In the (approximate) words of others on this message board earlier this year:
It is just a movie. Who cares if it misrepresents history? People who get their history from movies are teh dum and people who get all upset about how history is represented in movies are teh dummer.
Since most of the institutional history of Al Qaeda and build up to 9/11 took place during the Clinton years and only 8 months or so during the Bush years, any look at how American policy "allowed" 9/11 would, I think, have to spend a lot of time on the Clinton years.
Personally, I don't "blame" anybody for 9/11. People wanted to do bad things to us and, gratefully in my opinion, we live in a society where the truly determined will find it easy to do them. Looking back there are doubtless thousands of junctures at which an official could have done something or seen something or caused a butterfly to flap its wings causing the hurricane that grounded all the planes on the East Coast on that day.
I don't lay al Qaeda at the feet of either administration and both are stupidly eager to pretend that nothing they did had anything to do with it and therefore it is all the other administration's fault.
So, I'm going to stick to the blame I assigned a couple months ago in a similar discussion. I blame the Russians and when I make my version of "The Path to 9/11" it will be set entirely in the Jewish ghettos around Moscow, Kiev, and St. Petersburg in the last 50 years of the 19th century.
Pick who you want to blame and blame them. It doesn't really change anything about what happened.
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