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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Serious question: What were Hillary's chief accomplishments as Sec of State? [View all]HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)45. My personal favorite is handing Ukrainian policy to a neocon
who accomplished civil war by backing a neo-nazi insurgency.
It really covers so much of the range of skills she claims as experience.
There's overthrow of government, civilian deaths including those of citizens of nations not engaged in the combat via air-line shoot downs, rioting, civil war, alienation of global powers, screwing with the availability and cost of natural gas in western Europe, arms sales... it just goes on and on.
What's not to love?
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Serious question: What were Hillary's chief accomplishments as Sec of State? [View all]
TheDormouse
Apr 2016
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She did not do that -- the US/China pact was in 2014 and it was at John Kerry's initiation
karynnj
Apr 2016
#33
Copenhagen was not great but it's not like the process stopped between then and fall 2014
geek tragedy
Apr 2016
#34
These are good things, but they are not the agreement that actually got the first ever commitments
karynnj
Apr 2016
#39
1. without the sanctions regime on Iran there was no nuclear deal to be cut with Iran.
geek tragedy
Apr 2016
#38
The consensus seems to be that she didn't really have any. However, John Kerry is well respected and
Baobab
Apr 2016
#6
Yes, good point. 100,000s have died as a direct result of her actions--most were innocents
emsimon33
Apr 2016
#31
Syria? We came we saw he died? And she lobbied for the TPP, she promoted fracking.
Autumn
Apr 2016
#44
Helped US industry export fracking equipment ? Started the "selfie" boom ?
Impedimentus
Apr 2016
#52
Don't forget Saudi Arabia, bombers and looking the other way on human rights...China as well
EndElectoral
Apr 2016
#57
Why don't Hillary surrogates ever get asked this question by tv interviewers?
TheDormouse
Apr 2016
#59