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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Les H who wrote (6293)	9/30/1998 10:33:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

ahh...BNN. The peanut butter story actually had me fooled for a few minutes there. Probably because at least one airline has in fact stopped carrying food products with peanut butter in them..due to the off-chance that someone might be allergic to it.

To: Les H who wrote (6293)	9/30/1998 10:54:00 AM
From: John Lacelle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to 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