Duly Noted

The Clintons, along with their daughter, Chelsea, paid an unannounced visit here on Sunday night to see the damage firsthand and to express their sympathies to King Abdullah II and Queen Rania.

At the hospital, Mr. Clinton played with Ammar Abdel Rahim Keilani, a 4-year-old boy who has not spoken since a piece of shrapnel entered his head during the bombing. The boy sat silently in his bed, clutching a toy Hummer and spinning its rear wheel.

Mrs. Clinton bent over a 3-month-old baby girl, Tulin Samer, whose tiny, fractured right arm was wrapped in a bandage. The senator elicited several wide yawns and what looked like a smile.

In 1993, the World Trade Center was attacked by Islamic terrorists and when the attack was over, six people were murdered, more than 1,000 people were injured, and the WTC complex was badly damaged. President Bill Clinton was office at that time, and he never visited the scene of the carnage.

So, when a story came across my screen this morning that former President Bill Clinton visited Amman, Jordan to tour a damaged hotel and meet with some of the injured victims that resulted from the three suicide bomb attacks on hotels that killed 57 and wounded over 100 people, I was left wondering - why?

Why did he never appear in New York City after the 1993 attacks to visit the site, meet with families, or do anything else that he is now doing in Jordan? There was no effort to come to New York City after the 1993 WTC attack, nor was there any effort to meet with victims' families.

Curious.

Why does he see it fit to visit the victims in Jordan, but he never saw it fit to visit the victims in New York? What has changed in his reasoning that makes the Jordanian victims worthy of a Presidential visit? Sure, there's the political calculus of his wife and New York Senator Hillary Clinton. But, is that all?

UPDATE:
The Anchoress Online gags on the media fawning over the Clinton's visit to the hotels bombed in Amman, Jordan. Good observation.

UPDATE:
Smantix notes the Clinton's return to the scene of the crime; the continuing tribute to dictators, their wives, and appeasement as foreign policy.