I had promised myself that I'd stop writing about the Clinton affair (a very appropriate choice of words, I think), but...they just keep dragging me back in!

If I hadn't seen Wag the Dog myself, I wouldn't have believed this...Clinton couldn't find a state to declare war against in his doomed quest to divert the American people from his personal shortcomings, so he decided to invoke that ever-popular alarmist term, terrorism. Order a few air strikes, drop a few bombs, and everything will be alright. Right?

Wrong. What exactly did Clinton and/or the Pentagon expect to gain by this? Do they think that all of a sudden this Osama bin Laden's organization will just disappear when we throw a few bombs at him? It seems to me this will only make him that much more intent on continuing his terrorist operations. The big bad bogeyman, the USA, has only proven itself to be so to bin Laden. Why, if our government is so dead-set on erasing bin Laden, didn't they do something covert rather than a very public assault? Why didn't some CIA assassin infiltrate the terrorists' ranks and off him instead of bombing some sites which are titularly involved with his 'fatwas'? I guarantee that will frighten more anti-Americans than sprinkling bombs on a remote mountain outpost or a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant. The simple answer is that Clinton wants to get political mileage out of it and salvage his now far less than perfect reputation. Too bad for Clinton it's just not going to work.

I just want to know who the Dustin Hoffman character was in this Clintonized version of reality, and how *he* died.

- The Watcher (Can a President be a terrorist?)