Clinton has finally lost it: "What I want you to think about, you may not know a great deal about Kosovo -- and I'll try to talk a little about that today -- but I want you to see this in terms of the big picture. I want our children to have a Europe ...
"I have worked against ethnic and religious warfare in Africa,
Every one of you who ever raised a child that misbehaved, think about if you just said, well, that's -- they're just that way. Right? They're just that way. Well, if every parent said that, the jails would be five times as big as they are. ...
"They're too big because some people think they're just that way. That's not true. I just don't believe that. ...
"So you've got to decide what you believe. I don't believe that. ...
"Now, I think if the American people don't know anything else about me, they know that I don't like to use military force, and I do everything I can to avoid it. But if we have to do it, then that's part of the job, and I will do it. ...
"Now, I will say again, this is not a slam-dunk. This is a difficult issue. This is a difficult decision. I believe that the position I have taken is the best of a lot of bad alternatives. But you didn't just hire me to make the easy decisions. ... |
