[johnny7]

“Can we kill'em tomorrow?”

The phrase makes no sense in terms of foreign policy. Try applying it in contemporary history and it's comes off as brazen arrogance... a snide quip... the cheeky insolence of an adolescent.

However... it would make a great subtitle for 'Downside Legacy'.

[Mia T]

excellent!

The 'cheeky-clinton' counterpoint is especially 'bottom'-line . ;)

I am reminded of this Joan Didion comment:

"No one who ever passed through an American public high school could have watched William Jefferson Clinton running for office in 1992 and failed to recognize the familiar predatory sexuality of the provincial adolescent."

In 14 years he has not matured. If anything, he's regressed.

At best, he's arrested (would that he were), forever fixed in the phallic.

Not a good stage from which to lead a nation--especially a nation at war.