Those who are looking for a Clinton "legacy" will have few achievements to celebrate.

He will leave a legacy of unprecedented corruption of all the fundamental institutions of government. For a President of the United States to commit felonies and get away with them is a deadly legacy that may embolden future presidents to disregard the law -- and on things far more serious than cheap sex. Once you have demonstrated how brazen lying and character assassination against those who prosecute you, or who serve as witnesses, can get you through the worst scandals, you have left behind a blueprint for the further corruption of government. The Justice Department and even the courts have been corrupted by the Clinton administration. Sweetheart deals for felons who kept quiet about Clinton scandals -- whether Whitewater or illegal foreign campaign contributions -- are as symptomatic of the moral bankruptcy of Janet Reno's Justice Department as the seizing of little Elian Gonzalez at gunpoint in the middle of the night. . . .

There is also a foreign policy legacy. Clinton has used foreign policy as a source of photo-ops and as distractions from his domestic scandals. His policy in the middle east has been to respond to Palestinian violence by pressuring Israel to make concessions. That produces photo-ops -- and, after the photo ops are over, more violence to get more concessions. Clinton has swept the catastrophic dangers of nuclear proliferation under the rug, especially in North Korea, along with freeing Saddam Hussein to develop nuclear and biological weapons in Iraq without any more inspections. Clinton has over-ruled his own military and intelligence experts to allow China to buy high-tech equipment that will enable them to reach American cities with nuclear missiles. That is perhaps his most chilling legacy.

Excerpt from Townhall, January 18, 2001 Full Article

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