Abstract
Midway through historian and journalist David Halberstam's latest book, War in a Time of Peace, we find President Bill Clinton in the midst of a tirade. Frustrated over a floundering policy toward Haiti and humiliated in the wake of the withdrawal from Somalia, Clinton rips his National Security Council staff for incompetence. He compares them unfavorably to Reagan's staff, who responded to the death of 250 marines in Lebanon by "almost immediately [invading] Grenada. . . [to keep] their popularity up." We see Clinton advisers Anthony Lake, Sandy Berger, and George Stephanopoulos considering the implications of the president's outburst, with Stephanopoulos telling the others the president had merely been so angry he did not know what he was saying.
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