I take that back, JLA. I have mentioned Clinton in posts within the last six months -- but most of my references were parenthetical, or pejorative. I've never had much use for Clinton's foreign policy, in particular. Here is a sample post (from the Kosovo thread); I think it would be hard to construe it as a "defense" of Clinton:
To: goldsnow (15234 )
From: jbe
Tuesday, Nov 9 1999 12:51PM ET
Reply # of 15889
I understand very well that the Chechens may indeed remain on
their own. And I know the Russian generalitet is not going to listen to any outside criticism, as long as it has the overwhelming support of the population. (To take just one example of the latter: one Moscow
newspaper -- Nezavisimaia gazeta -- is running a poll right now,
asking readers whether they support negotiations with Maskhadov or not. The count so far: 14% support negotiations; 86% oppose them.)
It is just that I don't want my government to support what is going
on. The first time round, Clinton covered himself with disgrace,
when he compared the war in Chechnya to the American Civil War,
and Yeltsin himself to Abraham Lincoln. And then, of course, the
IMF money....I was in Chechnya at the time, and I had a difficult
time fending off questions like "Why do you Americans want to
exterminate us?" That was what it looked like to them...
Here is an opportunity for Clinton & Co. to go on record as opposing
the slaughter of the civilian population of Chechnya (which, let us
not forget, still includes ethnic Russians). It probably will not pay
off, at least not right away. But keeping silent is no alternative.
Silence is implied approval.
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FYI, Here are some more posts I made within the past six months, which mention Clinton.
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