President Clinton's trip last week to India and Pakistan felt more like a political campaign swing than a statesman's visit. There were policy speeches and "issues events" on health and the environment. There were photo ops and town-hall meetings. Sometimes all that seemed to be missing was candidate rallies and attack ads.
Make no mistake--his tour of the subcontinent and the meeting planned for Sunday in Geneva with Syrian President Hafez Assad were all part of Bill Clinton's last campaign. Call it a quest for a legacy (a term Clinton has banished from the White House lexicon) or, as he might...
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