I had seen previews of the interview last week, but was still startled when I watched Bill Clinton's sitdown with Fox's Chris Wallace. I don't believe that I have ever seen Bill Clinton so angry and arguably unhinged.

It was the "right wingers" who did nothing, according to Clinton's revised version of history, while he at least "tried" but "failed" to eliminate the threat of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. Apparently, Clinton must be referring to "right wingers" such as Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney et al.. The former president conveniently forgets that George W. Bush and his administration were in power less than eight months before September 11, 2001, while Clinton was in power for eight years and did virtually nothing stop the cancer of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. That malignant cancer grew and grew throughout the Clinton tenure. The country heard little about al Qaeda, or Mr. Clinton's claimed attempts at eliminating it, but rather heard a lot more about stained blue dresses and "vast right wing conspiracies."

A little pity must be shed for Bill Clinton, because he must know deep in his heart that 50 years from now the history books are more likely to talk about the blue dress than his "attempts" to eliminate Osama bin Laden. Mr. Clinton does not like to be reminded of this fact, as both the interview with Chris Wallace and the recent ABC miniseries "The path To 9/11" have done. It is not an enviable position to be in to be reminded of one's almost total failure to deal with such a looming threat to America, and the catastrophic consequences that resulted from that failure. The pity one might extend to Clinton ends abruptly, however, the moment he shamelessly attempts to extend his failure to "right wingers."

The "vast right-wing conspiracy" claimed by Hillary Clinton in 1998, and the "right wingers" who did nothing to stop 9/11, according to Bill Clinton, are a reminder to this country of the almost complete insignificance of the Clinton administration. Bill Clinton did nothing to stop the threat of all Osama bin Laden, and he has inadvertently once again brought that fact to the forefront of the American consciousness.

Bill Clinton cannot revise the history of his total ineffectiveness at eliminating the terrorist threat to America, and all the blustering, finger-pointing, furious indignation and squinted eyes will never change the essential truth of his failure.