Darrell- Shame?-
Don't you know character doesn't matter? It's A-OK with a lot of idiots to have a president who conducts foreign policy discussions on the phone with a Congressman while Monica performs fellatio or strokes his genitals. These same people think there is some firewall between a man's private life and his stewardship of a nation's policies.
It has now come to light the CIA warned that Slobby's thugs would finish the job they started if NATO when to war. The lying son-of-bitch then blithely assures the nation that his policies are not aggravating the the repression in Kosovo, when he knew all along that was a likely outcome.
Shame? You think a habitual liar like that- or his supporters- have a sense of shame? "Shine, perishing republic, shine".
Larry
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Excerpted from today's WSJ Op-Ed:
We would like to know where this establishment has been the past six years, when some of us were pressing the argument that Bill Clinton's handling of Whitewater, Gennifer Flowers, the draft, Filegate and all the rest were relevant to the character and conduct of his Presidency. We were told, long before Monica and even before the Lincoln Bedroom rentals, that it didn't matter.
Now some half-million refugees are streaming out of Kosovo, three beaten-up U.S. soldiers are in Serbian captivity and President Clinton was on primetime television Wednesday night telling his interviewer that he isn't sending ground troops into Kosovo and he doesn't think impeachment is a badge of shame. Some genius.
It now seems clear that the President went into this military commitment without having thought it through, and is getting himself, his troops, his nation and the NATO alliance into a deeper and deeper mess. It is well established by now that bombing an adversary's army while ruling out ground troops is a recipe for irresolution. Absent ground troops, the only option is bigger bombing, inevitably of civilians. The lesson of war is that if you are compelled to use force, use it overwhelmingly. This is also the responsible course; what saves lives is getting the war over quickly.
There is no reason to be surprised that the U.S. has arrived at this awful moment. Someone who behaves irresponsibly in much of his life is likely to behave irresponsibly in the rest of it. This is what we have meant by character.
Mr. Clinton's character problem is not, and never was, just about sex. From the first overseas engagement--in Haiti or Somalia--the criticism in this quarter of Bill Clinton's foreign policy has been that it's nothing more than managing the next news cycle in the interests of Presidential popularity. It has been a narcissistic foreign policy. Now we, and especially those three captured GIs,are paying the price.
There is danger here to broader U.S. interests. It is not merely a matter of Slobodan Milosevic; Saddam is taking the American President's measure. So obviously are the volatile North Koreans and those elements of the Chinese leadership that want to take Taiwan or who talked blithely awhile back of lobbing missiles at Los Angeles. ... |
