[Destro]

Kind of makes you wonder if you should not be on a pro Clinton site then. But all the same--we need foils--

[Torie]

The Clinton element did complicate matters. If it had been Bush, things might have been somewhat different, not with the Balkan hardliners, but with the neighborhood at large. One thing I think we can agree on, is that all of us detoxifying from Clintonitis is a good thing. He was a destructive destraction who tended to poison the debate on everything he touched, in part because folks assumed that if his lips were moving, he was lying. It gets to be heavy lifting to suggest that in some instances he was not.