Clinton Administration Kept America Strong

During the 2000 political campaign and in his first months in office, candidate George W. Bush and then President Bush assailed the previous administration of President Clinton for having neglected the American military. It was claimed that the American armed forces had been denied the funding that would enable them to wage effective war under almost any circumstances.

It appears now, however, that the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines and various highly specialized groups are highly trained, well equipped and have the very latest in technology that has enabled them, in a very short time, to reduce the previously highly touted Taliban forces to a confused rabble.

I am curious as to why none of the talking heads on television or the perennial contributors to commentary pages has noted the debt Bush and his team owe to the foresight of Clinton and his Defense Department team.

William E. Webster

Bakersfield