When the Lewinsky scandal broke, Mrs. Albright led the Cabinet in declaring their belief in Clinton's denials. Now we're supposed to trust their judgment and honesty when they tell us that the retaliatory air strikes were based on solid intelligence that a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory was producing a component of nerve gas. We are expected to put our faith in people who put their faith in Clinton. If we have to place blind trust in our rulers, they should deserve our trust. But Mrs. Albright and her colleagues no more deserve it than Clinton does.
Nobody deserves such trust.
The real lesson of the Clinton scandals is that we have allowed power to be dangerously concentrated in the hands of a few people of limited intelligence, dubious character and considerable arrogance. The solution is not to replace them all, but to limit their power. Well, shut my mouth. In a glib and Freudian moment, it just slipped out. Bill, you will do what we tell you.