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Related: About this forumHuff Po Echoes NYT: Hillary's Enthusiasm For War
Hillary's actions show she is in favor of regime change. That's why Neo Cons are rushing to support her. Last Sunday's NYT had a long article about how HRC is, above all, a war hawk who favors military intervention. The NYT article mentioned how one of her confidants is a Fox news "war" correspondent, no less.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-fein/-hillary-clintons-appalli_b_9157892.html
If she is elected President, the United States will be fighting gratuitous wars every hour of every day of her presidency. That should give pause. Alexis de Tocqueville admonished in Democracy in America, All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it. James Madison, the Albert Einstein of political philosophy, warned: No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
Despite such hallowed wisdom, Ms. Clinton has supported every war initiated by the United States not in self-defense for more than twenty three years since she first occupied the White House as First Lady: Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, ISIS, Al- Qaeda, Yemen, Somalia, and international terrorism generally.
In 2008, she promised if elected president to obliterate Iran if it attacked Israeleven if the United States was unthreatened and Congress had not authorized war: I want the Iranians to know, if I am the president, we will attack Iran... And I want them to understand that... we would be able to totally obliterate them [to retaliate for an attack on Israel].
In 2011, then Secretary of State Clinton championed a humanitarian war against Libya to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi after he had abandoned WMD, Libya had been removed as a state sponsor of terrorism, he had handsomely compensated the victims of the Lockerbie bombing, and he posed no threat to the United States. She has fiercely defended the war as smart power at its best.
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Huff Po Echoes NYT: Hillary's Enthusiasm For War (Original Post)
amborin
May 2016
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RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)1. The Tocqueville quote alone makes this post worth reccing.
"All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it.
Luckily, its value only begins with that quote.
Thanks for posting, amborin!
amborin
(16,631 posts)2. Here is Hillary laughing about bombing Iran, the same kind of laugh she had about "we came...he died