2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumJust a few examples of Clinton's "Love and kindness" (to the rest of the world, for those that
don't give a crap for anyone beyond U.S. borders, probably boring and unimportant).
The Foreign Policies of Sanders, Trump, and Clinton: America and the World In 2016 and Beyond
By Joanne Landy
Source: New Politics
May 25, 2016
On El Salvador, Grandin writes, In 2012, Hillary Clintons State Department, acting through its ambassador, Mari Carmen Aponte, threatened to withhold critical development aid unless El Salvador passed a major privatization law. . . . It wouldnt be the only time that Ambassador Aponte, a political ally of the Clintons, menaced Salvadors leftist FMLN government. Recently, she warned Salvadorans about the need to buy corporate manufactured GMO seeds, insisting that the FMLNs seed-cooperative program violates the terms of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).[49]
Beyond Latin America, Stephen Zunes reminds us of Clintons obscene comment on Egypts dictator just before his fall, I really consider President and Mrs. Mubarak to be friends of my family. (She surely hopes we will forget that gaffe.) Zunes notes that After Saudi Arabian forces joined those of the Bahraini monarchy in brutally repressing nonviolent pro-democracy demonstrators the following month, The Wall Street Journal reported that Clinton had emerged as one of the leading voices inside the administration urging greater U.S. support for the Bahraini king. She has long considered a top priority the promotion of arms transfers to Saudi Arabia, which is not only one of the worlds most repressive regimes but has been using U.S. jets and ordinance in air strikes in Yemen that have killed thousands of civilians. In her last visit as secretary of state to Uzbekistana brutal dictatorship that has gunned down hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators, boiled opponents to death in oil, and sends hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren annually into forced labor in the cotton fields she declined to meet with leading human rights activists. Instead, she emphasized the importance of Uzbekistan to the region and to our national interest.[50]
On Libya, Jo Becker and Scott Shane note in The New York Times that Hillary Clintons voice was critical in persuading a hesitant President Obama to join in bombing Gaddafis forces. They write, In fact, Mr. Obamas defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, would later say that in a 51-49 decision, it was Mrs. Clintons support that put the ambivalent president over the line.[51]
Full article: https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-foreign-policies-of-sanders-trump-and-clinton-america-and-the-world-in-2016-and-beyond/
Baobab
(4,667 posts)This was a good example, of how I was saying the Clintons made 5ingle payer FT A ill egal.
by means of international 'agre ements' that 'captured' their 'autonomous level' of 'liberalisation'. (privatization)
Scuba
(53,475 posts)CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)Her hideous, disastrous policies are what I care about.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)they hate Sanders, hate liberals, and she's better than Trump. So they are impervious to information like this.
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haikugal
(6,476 posts)arikara
(5,562 posts)She acts more like the Reagan/Bush bunch. I see no difference, how she gets away with calling herself a progressive or even a democrat is beyond me.