Posted on 09/28/2016 3:52:16 PM PDT by Lorianne
She almost certainly would lead America into more foolish wars. About the only reason to hope for a Clinton victory is her flawed opponent, Donald Trump.
Yet despite his many failings, he remains superior to Clinton when it comes to foreign policy. No one knows what Trump would do in a given situation, which means there is a chance he would do the right thing. In contrast, Clinton’s beliefs, behavior, and promises all suggest that she most likely would do the wrong thing, embracing a militaristic status quo which most Americans recognize has failed disastrously.
In fact, her proclivity for promiscuous war-making has attracted the support of leading Neoconservatives, including some architects of the disastrous Iraq war, which as Senator she voted to authorize. Some otherwise obscure Neocons even have appeared in her campaign ads. Her record of backing every recent U.S. military intervention is far more attractive than Trump’s intermittently blustering rhetoric to war-happy Republican hawks.
As my Cato Institute colleague Christopher Preble pointed out, “Clinton supported every one of the last seven U.S. military interventions abroad, plus two others we ended up fighting.” For instance, while First Lady she pushed for U.S. intervention in the Balkans—attacking the Bosnian Serbs and then Serbia. She was an enthusiastic war advocate, explaining: “I urged him [her husband] to bomb.” Alas, Bosnia remains badly divided while Kosovo has turned into a gangster state which, according to the New York Times, is “a font of Islamic extremism and a pipeline for jihadists.” Oops.
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I’m quite convinced that Hillary will get us into a war with Russia that will end hardly for both nations.
The turning point for them was when all of those "neo-con" @ssholes from the Bush administration started coming out and supporting her.
You’re RIGHT!!!!
And both obama and Hillary want to fight Russia to the last Pole. Poles, beware the Hildebeast!!!!
They better vote for Trump!
Refusing to vote—or voting third-party—is a vote for Hillary!!!!
What BS !!!
There's nothing flawed about Trump. He speaks honestly and plainly. He's supper-successful. And from all I can tell from the folks who do know him, he's a nice guy.
[By contrast, Hillary is a liar. She'e never done anything that might be considered a success since she graduated from Law School. And those who know her (and aren't seeking political favors, as e.g. her former Secret Service protectors) describe her as the quintessential bitch.]
Trump has thousands of employees. You would think that by now the enemy press would be parading his detractors nonstop. But they're not. There can be only one reason.
ML/NJ
Their attitude, though, is probably pervasive on the left.
Dems have always been the war party. If Wilson hadn’t gotten involved in WWI, it would have produced a stalemate and none of the problems, including WWII, would ever have happened.
Lying leads to bad things. Liars wind up in messes. Usually, bloody messes. I think you pegged this one that we will see more wars under Clinton. If other national leaders size Trump up correctly - he is a real leader - they’ll back him and some of the bad guys are gonna re-think their bad plans.
In the beginning I was a Cruz supporter, but also from the beginning Trump’s foreign policy was one of the issues I agreed with him on.
As Trump said, she has lots of experience but it’s all Bad Experience.
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