MILITARY HAS A TOUGH SELL FOR ENLISTMENTS

Meanwhile, U.S. military recruiters are finding their jobs to be more and more difficult. The all-voluntary military isn't attracting nearly enough recruits, and there are thoughts of lowering enlistment standards -- again.

Support for the military that would have bolstered our overall readiness to back up our claim to be a superpower has been all but nonexistent during the Clinton years. Now he wants Americans and the world to regard him as some sort of military leader?

But watch the master of political glib at work. Before this is over, Clinton will be telling you that he saved America's military might. And most of you will believe it -- or so the polls will say.

What could be worse? Vice President Al Gore claiming to have invented the Marines?