Adding
Up the Costs of Hillary's Wars
Would
Hillary be more inclined toward an aggressive foreign policy? Certainly more
than Obama’s—Clinton pressed the White House to directly intervene in Syria and
was far more hard line on Iran. More than the Republicans? It’s hard to say,
because most of them sound like they have gone off their meds. For instance, a
number of GOP candidates pledge to cancel the nuclear agreement with Iran, and,
while Clinton wanted to drive a harder bargain than the White House did, in the
end she supported it. However, she did say she is proud to call Iranians
“enemies,” and attacked Sanders for his remark that the U.S. might find common
ground with Iran on defeating the Islamic State. Sanders then backed off and
said he didn’t think it was possible to improve relations with Teheran in the
near future. The danger of Clinton’s view of America’s role in the world is
that it is old fashioned imperial behavior wrapped in the humanitarian rationale
of R2P and thus more acceptable than the “make the sands glow” atavism of most
the Republicans. In the end, however, R2P is just death and destruction in a
different packaging. More
A Libya
Call That Still Haunts Hillary Clinton
When
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walked into the gilded Elysee Palace
in Paris on March 14, 2011, she found a fired-up French President Nicolas
Sarkozy eager to launch military strikes in Libya… A few hours later, after
consultations with British and Arab allies and a leader of the Libyan opposition
all demanding action, Clinton joined a White House meeting of President Obama’s
National Security Council by phone and forcefully urged the president to take
military action… Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, national security adviser
Thomas E. Donilon and others were against military action, contending that the
United States had no clear national interests at stake and that operations could
last far longer and cost more lives than anyone anticipated. But Clinton joined
U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice and White House adviser Samantha Power in pressing
Obama to back a U.S.- and NATO-led military campaign, arguing that the United
States could not let Gaddafi butcher his citizens. More
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