Posted on 11/14/2015 12:41:33 PM PST by Kaslin
Hillary is only interested in HILLARY!
You break it you but it and Hillary has never been called out for her support with the military intervention in Libya. No questions about the aftermath of such actions, or any plan with dealing with the blowback.
What a load of BS. They’re trying to cleverly paint Hillary as someone who will be willing to go fight terrorism. She will do no such thing, since her base would not allow it.
no, Streve
the USA has been at war since the Muslims attacked New York City and attempted to attack Washington DC
Afghanistan was not the beginning of the war, and your implication that USA started the war is false
Hillary heard from the grapevine that men are much more likely to be killed than women.
Far from wanting to wage war against Russia,
plenty of Republicans are cheering Putin on.
This article is crippled with partisanship.
Naturally.
They? Who’s they?
The US will be in permanent war so long as the US is regarded by its enemies as weak and faltering in its responses to aggressive moves.
The Muslim world, or at least parts of it, declared war on us. We can pretend that is not the case and try to ignore them but that won’t stop them from trying to destroy us.
Hillary supporters in the MSM and the "establishment".
oh okey, thanks
For him Hillary probably is too hawkish.
Probably for some Democrats too.
HRC's "base" (and her husband's) may not be the same as Obama's.
“You break it you but it and Hillary has never been called out for her support with the military intervention in Libya. No questions about the aftermath of such actions, or any plan with dealing with the blowback.”
This seems to have been buried. Libya certainly was far from perfect before, but the increase in misery there is spectacular after Europe and the US “won” against basically a third world country. And that misery will come back to bite them.
“They’re trying to cleverly paint Hillary as someone who will be willing to go fight terrorism.”
You can bet that is tonight’s “theme” for the Hillary for President commercial, otherwise known as the Democratic debate.
You thought Libya was a good idea? The coup in Ukraine was a good idea?
The days of war=conservatism never were. Unless you think Lindsay Graham is a conservative.
You bet.
"I helped take out Bin Laden. I took out Gadaffi. I helped save billions of women all around the world. I will be tough on terror. Etc.".
Hillary and Obama have a checklist they use for decision making.
Here it is:
1. Does it benefit me?
2. Does it benefit my family and friends?
3. Does it benefit the Democrat Party?
If they can’t answer “yes” to one of those questions, then they don’t care.
Notice that the U.S. isn’t anywhere on that list.
I hate the word "blowback" -- it's ideological 'Ratspeak/Commiespeak </off redundancy mode>, and their slanguage is the enemy of clear thought.
"Entailed consequences" and "ramifications" are what conservatives talk about, and there was plenty of talk in 2003, when George Bush succumbed to the mission-creep advocacy of the national-greatness Republicans (John McCain, exhibit A) and the neoconservatives in the administration (Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Richard Cheney et al.).
There were lots of conservatives in 2003 who advocated "in-and-out": Kill Saddam, kill the "wolf cubs" to destroy regime continuity, break down the regime, break his Republican Guards, and go home. Remember that it was Colin Powell who invoked the "Pottery Barn rule"; his was a minority report, cold rissoles from the 41 administration about a "viable Iraq", that became Bush Administration policy. By contrast, Stephen Decatur and his president, Thomas Jefferson, hallucinated no such obligation toward the corsairs of the Maghreb, and would not have agreed with Powell on the subject of "nation-building".
As for your comment about "no question", George Bush did master the Iranians' Badr Brigade tools and AQI and left Jug Ears a pacified Iraq, which Jug Ears promptly threw away with his self-consequent ideological pronunciamentos that by themselves made everything instantly worse, and then deepened the dissolution of America's gains by simply bugging out and leaving Iraq to become a pawn of Iran and a sectarian battlefield. Bush mastered the bad guys, and Obama sympathized with and fomented them, it's as simple as that.
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