The Era of Illusory Peace

Many thanks to the editors of the WSJ for this reminder that the Clinton Era was no kind of "foreign-policy golden age":

"We recall it mostly as an era of illusory peace as problems festered with too little U.S. attention. Al Qaeda was left unchecked, Saddam Hussein banished U.N. inspectors and exploited Oil for Food, North Korea embarked on a secret nuclear program, Russia's post-Cold War spring faded, and Pakistan's A.Q. Khan spread nuclear-bomb technology around the world."