In the careless shorthand of Washington correspondents, the Clinton administration’s Ohio fiasco was supposed to be an “Oprah-style” town meeting. If only. Had Oprah, rather than Madeleine Albright, gone out to endorse bombing Iraq, Saddam would now be in the same enfeebled state as those Texas cattle barons: Within days, polls would have shown 98 percent support for saturation bombing; the self-help guide How to Make Your Own Smart Bomb would have reached the top of the best-seller lists; the new CD by Oprah’s musical guest, Kenny G. Plays His Weapon of Mass Destruction, would have gone platinum; luxuriantly mustachioed...