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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: Les H who wrote (6293)9/30/1998 10:54:00 AM
From: John Lacelle  Read Replies (2) of 67261
 
Les,

It looks like the PBS series "Frontline" is
starting to take a critical look at the Bill
Clinton Presidency. Last night, the episode
covered the Somalia disaster. This was the
first time I ever saw any news program actually
lay the blame for the disasterous mission that
resulted in 18 dead Army Rangers and about 1,000
dead Somalis. In a nutshell, Clinton ordered
the U.S. Army to capture one of the Somalia
warlords named Adid. For some strange reason,
at the same time Clinton authorized former
President Jimmy Carter to try and negotiate
a truce with Adid. Carter knew Adid from his
time as President and was earnest in his effort
to negotiate some kind of peace. In the mean
time, Clinton and his staff order an attempt to
capture Adid all the while we knew that our
intelligence in Somalia was bad, and that the
Italian Peacekeepers were even informing Adid
of our troop movements. Our troops were ambushed
and the rest is history.

It always amazed me how Clinton has such a teflon
coat for all his bumbling foreign policy mistakes.
Finally, the U.S. media has caught on to the fact
that Bill Clinton is incapable of making sound
policy with the rest of the world. It is costing
a lot of lives. Now (after it is too late to really
make a difference) NATO is going to start bombing
Serbia in an effort to halt their crushing defeat of
the Kosovo Albanian rebels. This comes on top of
three years and billions of dollars that have done
nothing to stabilize the situation in Bosnia. I
have always thought that foreign policy would be
Bill Clinton's "achilles heel".

The next episode of "Frontline" will focus on corruption
during Bill Clinton's Presidency.

-John
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