And now, George Will with his two cents

With a hat tip to Betsy, here’s George Will on why “Clarke’s book will be quickly forgotten”. This excerpt echoes my opinion about Clarke’s “apology” to the 9/11 families:

Clarke's apology to the American people, delivered to the Sept. 11 commission, should be considered in the context of the book, the publication of which was timed to coincide with his testimony. When, presuming to speak for the entire government, he said ``we tried hard,'' he actually must have been using the royal plural, because the gravamen of his book is that only he was trying hard. Indeed, parts of Clarke's memoir call to mind Finley Peter Dunne's jest that Teddy Roosevelt's memoir of the Cuban expedition should have been titled ``Alone in Cuba.''

I have nothing to add to that.