"}\u201cAt a glamorous book launch given by Vogue for Katharine Graham in February 1997, a Nation colleague of mine was introduced to Henry Kissinger. On hearing the name of the magazine, the doer, or of death drew back. \u201cThe Nation? So I suppose that to you I am a war criminal?\u201d Yielding to that fatal instinct that sometimes urges people to be laid-back and unpredictable, my comrade attempted a pleasantry and observed that, in these post-cold war days, the old mag was just as likely to describe\u2013who knows?\u2013Bill Clinton as a war criminal. Kissinger stared into his cocktail and said, slowly and distinctly, \u201cMr. Clinton does not have the strength of character to be a war criminal.\u201d\u201d\u2014 Christopher Hitchens, The Thief of Baghdad