Some petty things can be insinuated without proof, but major charges need a little more, shall we say, evidence? Among the latest Rich assertions is a particularly arresting one. It is that the Bush administration has dreamed up a war on Iraq to solve its domestic political problems.
Andrew Sullivan, Times of London, 8/23/98
Commentators last week spoke about America's actions in Sudan and Afghanistan with a wry smile on their faces. They drew parallels with Wag the Dog, the film in which a war is invented by spinmeisters to counter a presidential sex scandal. That any such parallel could credibly be made shows how far America has sunk in the leadership of the free world, and how vulnerable Bill Clinton has rendered his country and its citizens.