Today's New York Post is reporting that the Clinton Administration "failed to aggressively track one of the [September 11] hijackers after obtaining his first name and phone number more than two years before the attacks."

According to the article:

The tip, received in March 1999, appears to be one of the earliest signs that U.S. officials had about one of the 2001 hijackers. It also may have represented a missed chance for U.S. intelligence to uncover a terror cell in Germany that was a key element of the hijacking plot.

Despite the hopes and pleas of Democrats that Clinton's record has no bearing on the present, this information, if true, has implications for the 2004 presidential election.

Like Clinton, John Kerry, does not think the "war on terror" should be fought as a war, but as "primarily an intelligence and law enforcement operation." Further, not unlike Clinton, Kerry thinks the threat of terrorism is "greatly exaggerated," and we should, instead, be concentrating on domestic issues.

It is becoming more likely every day that the Clintonesque view of foreign policy allowed the attacks on September 11 to occur. Accordingly, we need to ask whether we want that view back in the White House, to further endanger our citizens.