The Detroit News Slimes President Clinton

Here's what the Detroit News had to say Saturday about Bill Clinton's visit to Michigan:

Clinton ignored the terror war

Former President Bill Clinton stopped by Metro Detroit last week to rally Democrats to the reelection bids of Gov. Jennifer Granholm and U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow. Clinton accused Republicans of trying to scare Americans with overblown terrorism fears. Clinton will go down in history as the Neville Chamberlain of the war on terror for failing to confront Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups while they were in their formative stages. (Emphasis Mine)

Let's take a look at what they're saying, shall we?

1. President Bill Clinton failed to confront Al Qaeda and other terrorists in their formative stages.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but after terrorists bombed US Embassies abroad in 1998 I seem to recall President Bill Clinton launched missle strikes into Africa and Afaghnistan at sites that were training ground for terrorists?
That would be, what, his Munich Agreement? Except instead of a peace accord, Bill Clinton launched MISSLES. Other than that, yeah, exactly the same.

2. President Clinton's failure to stop Al Qaeda then led to the tragedy on September 11th 2001.

It's not stated but implied. It's the logical conclusion of the written statement. Clinton attacks the current administration using fear of terrorism as a tool, and in the next sentence the paper implies that we wouldn't have a terror problem if he had done more about the terorrists. Because it was President Clinton who recieved a PDB titled "bin Ladin determined to strike the US" and continued to stay on vacation, right?

3. Neville Chamberlain... what? Failed to confront Germany?

The correlation being implied is logically false. President Clinton's handling of terrorists and Neville Chamberlain pursuing a peace agreement with Germany are entirely dissimilar. Who would President Clinton have struck a peace accord with? And let's take a look at Neville Chamberlain as well.

Germany (by assisnation and threat of force) annexed Austria, and was pursuing a part of Czechoslovakia that had a large German minority. The Munich Agreement came about to appease Hitler, and hopefully stop him from pursuing, essentially war. And keep in mind France helped draft the Munich Agreement, and I don't have the research but would wager that America at the time would find the arrangement acceptable. The Munich Agreement allowed Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia.
No one knew, at the time that Hitler was HITLER. He was the dictictorial head of Germany, and seemingly power hungry, but no one guessed insanity. When Germany invaded Poland NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY.

And finally, from Wikipedia:

"Many of his (Neville Chamberlain's) contemporaries viewed him as stubborn and unwilling to accept criticism, an opinion backed up by his dismissal of cabinet ministers who disagreed with him on foreign policy"

Now, who does THAT remind you of?