Clearly Clinton made a gamble -- the gamble that you could go to war without calling it a war. That you could use force without using ground troops. That you could fight a major fight without losing any Americans and still come out in the end proclaiming -- rightly so -- success. He gambled, and as usual with Bill Clinton, he won.


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