> Whoever was making these policy decisions in the '90s -- What were they thinking? I don't think Bill Clinton was generally thinking of much at all. He wasn'

> Whoever was making these policy decisions in the '90s -- What were they thinking? I don't think Bill Clinton was generally thinking of much at all. He wasn't a terribly good executive, but was in fact a failed governor of a poor state who got doubly lucky: first, that he was the challenger during a recession; and second, that a third-party challenger siphoned votes for the incumbent. Fortunately for America, clueless disinterest worked pretty well for eight years, allowing the Internet to take off. Unfortunately, cluelessness also set the scene for the geopolitical worlds of 2001 & 2003 …