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2016 Postmortem

appal_jack

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3. Secretaries of State are supposed to employ diplomacy, not coups and war.

Reply to Zira (Original post)

Tue Apr 12, 2016, 03:58 PM

Apr 2016

Hillary seemed to function as a wannabe-Secretary of Defense rather than as an effective SoS.

The least she could have done was to prepare for the aftermath, but instead she took a page from the B*sh/Cheney/Rumsfeld playbook on that as well.

k&r,

-app

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Libya: Obama Admits Clinton's "Greatest Moment" Was His "Worst Mistake" [View all] Zira Apr 2016 OP

only cuz we didn't intervene hard enough to him *sigh* MisterP Apr 2016 #1

Excellent article you linked for Hondurian Coup Zira Apr 2016 #2

and Davis was used to end-run the WH on Honduras just as Blumenthal end-ran him on Libya! MisterP Apr 2016 #9

Secretaries of State are supposed to employ diplomacy, not coups and war. appal_jack Apr 2016 #3

That's what happens when you idolize Henry Kissinger. n/t Avalux Apr 2016 #8

Great read, thanks for posting. Good points about the double standard Obama has re: classified info 2cannan Apr 2016 #4

You heard it here: Ostensible "progressives" want the dictator back in charge of Libya. IamMab Apr 2016 #5

No, but in hindsight, it's not impossible that that was the lesser of two evils. (n/t) thesquanderer Apr 2016 #7

Very likely. n/t Lucinda Apr 2016 #10

4 days in, and making quite a splash already! frylock Apr 2016 #11

Goodbye forever. IamMab Apr 2016 #13

NOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo..... frylock Apr 2016 #14

Dictators ARE terrorists. They just use a 'kinder, gentler' form of terrorism than pampango Apr 2016 #12

The one thing her supporters love about Clinton is her toughness. "We came, we saw, he died." rhett o rick Apr 2016 #6