Clintonian Revisionism
In a post that otherwise makes good points, Matt Yglesias writes: The absence of giant blow-ups between the United States and our main NATO allies ought to count as a real accomplishment of the Clinton years. Riiight. Apart, that is, from the major disagreements in the Balkans – ie, a pretty important foreign policy issue of the time – which resulted in Blair and Clinton falling out rather severely and, among other things, saw a British general disobey an American general’s direct order on the grounds that he wasn’t comfortable with the idea of “starting World War Three” there weren’t any “blow-ups” in the Clinton years. NATO in fact came