According to a fascinating account in the New York Times last week, Clinton administration officials claim their boss could successfully spin a "compromise" on Kosovo: "'Clinton is a better communicator than anyone else,' said a senior Administration official. 'Once Clinton decides that's what he's going to do, he'll sell it. If Nixon could sell the fall of Saigon as peace with honor, Clinton can sell this.'"

Let's see now . . . Saigon fell in April 1975, eight months after Nixon's resignation. Does this "senior administration official" know something that we don't?