What were Clintons worst foreign policy failures?
He didn’t set a clear message of the threats we face in the world. He was compartmentalized, relying on polls a lot. You deal with crises du jour as they come. The worst, and most symbolic, was Somalia. We sent a small group of rangers and Green Berets to get a person whom, it is now said, was helped by bin Laden’s terrorist forces. I don’t know if that’s true, but it’s what they are saying in the Pentagon. After 12 or 20 people were killed, we pulled out. The secretary of defense was sacked, and that was it. There was this sense of being stymied. We were tied down with our own power and unwilling or afraid of using it. Q: What picture or photograph most encapsulates the ethos of the 1990s? A: The one that stands out is from a terrible moment when the Monica story was breaking. The president had to admit he had lied to his wife, his family, and the country. Eight or nine months later it had all unraveled. They were going off on this happy vacation in Martha’s Vineyard. Walking out into
