To be sure, President Clinton's personal qualities, predilections and shortcomings as a leader -- which are ever more on display -- are contributing greatly to the seeming incoherence, volatility and inconstancy of contemporary American foreign and defense policy.
Above all else, the display might have illustrated that Stoudemire who just weeks ago said he was learning how to play defense for the first time in his 11-year-career isn't capable of anchoring the unit against teams with more physical lineups.