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Article: Guest editorial. (Bill Clinton's hypocrisy in equating the Cold War with simpler times in foreign policy) (Column)
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- National Review
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- January 24, 1994
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"We look back to that era now, and we long for a--I even made a crack the other day. I said, |Gosh, I miss the Cold War.' It was a joke, I mean, I don't really miss it, but you get the joke."
--President Clinton, interview with the
Washington Post, Oct. 15, 1993
IT IS not really a joke. It is an alibi. When the Clinton Administration runs into trouble abroad--debacle in Somalia, humiliation in Haiti, dithering over Bosnia--it likes to preface its list of extenuations with: Of course, we no longer have the easy divisions of the Cold War to make things clear and crisp and simple. Things are so much harder now.
So clear and crisp and ...