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pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 10:32 AM Mar 2016

As reckless as George W. Bush: Hillary Clinton helped create disorder in Iraq, Libya, Syria —

and, scarier, doesn’t seem to understand how.

American primacy at all cost. That's her dangerous guiding mission. Only Bush, Nixon loved imperial adventure more
Patrick L. Smith

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/13/as_reckless_as_george_w_bush_hillary_clinton_helped_create_disorder_in_iraq_libya_syria_and_scarier_doesnt_seem_to_understand_how/

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As you may surmise, I take the prospect of a Clinton II era to be a grave matter. It is not that she is a pathological variant of the political shape-shifter, to borrow a phrase from Charles Blow’s excellent column on the collapse of American ideals in Monday’s New York Times. It is Clinton’s consistency that should concern us most.

This is a dangerous figure, and I use the word advisedly, not rhetorically. Over eight years as First Lady, eight more as a New York senator and four as secretary of state, Clinton has proven repeatedly abusive of social order and careless of human life. It is time we face these facts and act accordingly. This holds especially for those given to false consciousness or lesser-of-evils arguments as they decide what to do next November 8.

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The record is long and lately comes more to light. In the edition of CounterPunch published this week, Nick Alexandrov has a startling piece, “Hillary in Honduras,” on the fate of women after the 2009 coup that Clinton backed as secretary of state. In The Nation, Greg Grandin describes the “all-out assault on decent people,” who include indigenous women, by the Tegucigalpa putschists Hillary still calls “a unity government.”

Libya is an ongoing tragedy—which Clinton could have avoided has she not refused negotiations, it turns out. How many civilian casualties so far—and how many of those women and children? Clinton takes a highly antagonistic position with regard to the Rouhani government in Iran, so encouraging extremist conservatives. Ever been to Iran? It teems with sophisticated women who are happy to be Iranian but remain trapped in a political, social and cultural environment wherein there is no chance of fully realizing themselves.

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A long and interesting article but a very interesting viewpoint.

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As reckless as George W. Bush: Hillary Clinton helped create disorder in Iraq, Libya, Syria — (Original Post) pdsimdars Mar 2016 OP
She is a one trick pony when it comes to foreign policy thereismore Mar 2016 #1
We don't need another clueless CHickenhawk Ferd Berfel Mar 2016 #2
Someone check her scalp for 666. Does her hair also hide small red horns? I thought i saw.. dubyadiprecession Mar 2016 #3

thereismore

(13,326 posts)
1. She is a one trick pony when it comes to foreign policy
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 10:56 AM
Mar 2016

Bombs to wreck a country and no-fly zones to starve the hapless people.

Ferd Berfel

(3,687 posts)
2. We don't need another clueless CHickenhawk
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 11:13 AM
Mar 2016

in the WH. Especially one that considers a war criminal like Kissenger her 'mentor'.

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