ted 12 years of dominance by Republican presidents that opened the financial floodgates for the Department of Defense. That taught Bill Clinton and the Democratic Leadership Council a lesson when it came to the wisdom of wrapping the national security state in a welcoming embrace, which they did. This expedient turn to the righ

dy who's weak and right." While savoring that little aphorism, reporters passed over big parts of Clinton's characteristically sprawling address to the Democratic Leadership Council, one he said he was reading from "handwritten notes . . . I wrote out this morning after coming back late from Mexico last night." But it's worth w