Not A Bad Question

Not quite the question I would ask, but Clinton's are better than any of Bush's:

He also reflected on his own decisions when, as commander in chief, he was urged to launch a military strike somewhere in the world.

"I always thought of Senator Fulbright and the terrible quagmire in Vietnam and how many times we sent more soldiers and found ourselves in a hole and kept digging because we didn't want to look like we were weak. So anytime somebody said in my presidency, 'If you don't do this people will think you're weak,' I always asked the same question for eight years: "Can we kill 'em tomorrow?"

"If we can kill 'em tomorrow, then we're not weak, and we might be wise enough to try to find an alternative way," said Clinton.

What I like about the odd turn of phrase Clinton uses is that it gets to the heart of a more important and fundamental question: what is power?  His boss had a few things to say about that as well.

I'll tell ya what ain't power: turning the Middle East into glass/a parking lot/whatever.  That's just another form of weakness.  And Bush is weak because he doesn't ask the right questions.

ntodd