When viewing Bill Clinton’s recent defense of his eight years of inaction and ineffective waffling in the face Islamic terrorism, I was reminded of words put into the mouth of Antonio Barberini* by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis in 1635: the Cannon Law. It seems to me that, like the character referred to in the fictional account, Bill Clinton has the uncanny ability to
“…bring more brain-power to bear on being a fool than most men could exert in the profoundest philosophical inquiry.”
*Yeh, the book’s an “alternate timestream” kinda thing and Antonio Barberini was a real person in history suited out to play a part in it.
Seems like ol’ “Slick Willie” missed an important Yoda lesson. One of my favorites:
“Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.” — Yoda