Damn if he does, Damned if he doesn't

For those of you that remember, during the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the U.S. bombed the Al Queda/Bin Laden camp in Afghanistan. The "Right" said (at the time) that this was to distract America from the Lewinsky scandal. The Clinton administration said they did it because nobody was expecting it and therefore they had the element of surprise (you don't have to read The Art of War, to realize how important that is). Whatever the motive, that's what happened.

Now years later, the "Right" is saying Clinton was hamstrung during the Lewinsky scandal and therefore was unable to properly defend America. Not only is this duplicitous revisionist argument stupid it begs the question:

Did those Right Wing smear-mongers, who so fervently pushed the Monica Lewinsky issue in an effort to shame a sitting president, ACTUALLY put our nation in danger?