Posted by
john on Wednesday, December 03, 2008 12:28:22 AM
Many thanks to the editors of the WSJ for this reminder that the Clinton Administration was no kind of "foreign-policy golden age":
"We recall it mostly as an era of illusory peace as problems festered with too little U.S. attention. Al Qaeda was left unchecked, Saddam Hussein banished U.N. inspectors and exploited Oil for Food, North Korea embarked on a secret nuclear program, Russia's post-Cold War spring faded, and Pakistan's A.Q. Khan spread nuclear-bomb technology around the world."