editor-in-chief of the national memo. and syria, the first step down, a dangerous road. joe, thank you for being here. good to be with you. we were talking in the break that this whole idea that bill clinton was doing wag the dog when he attacked when he launched missile strikes into afghanistan, you object to even the notion of that. well, i think anybody who wants to say that should say it to the face of general anthony zippy and the other national security officials who approved those strikes a long with president clinton. in other words, anybody who says that is saying that the general and others involved with our national security apparatus at that time were going along with this nefarious strategy of starting a you know, using a military strike to distract from president s personal problems, which i think was not true. i think clinton was aware that that would be said when he did that. and that when he talked to