HOW DOES a weeping, empathizing President drop bombs? The same way porcupines mate: carefully. Updating this old joke, Colin Powell called the damage Clinton inflicted on Baghdad “collateral”; Al Gore called it “proportionate,” but the best rationale came from Pat Schroeder, who whined earnestly, “It shows he’s sensitive.”
Clinton’s sensitivity is usually attributed to the pacifist Sixties, but anti-war protestors yelled and broke things. He’s actually a product of the feminist Seventies, when the “humanized” male was ordered to report for duty.
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