I agree with you and will add that Clinton was after the Noble Peace Prize. Starting a war with Muslims would not have set well with the UN and the anti-Americanism of the Peace Prize officials.
He was posing for his photo ops with Arafat and killing Muslims might have upset his number one foreign visitor (Arafat) if he had done that.
I hadn't thought of the Nobel Peace Prize angle...but you are so right..
I mean he is practically campaigning for Kofi Annen's seat right now!