long time guy wrote:
Tall Midget wrote:
long time guy wrote:
She definitely isn't a neo-con either. Its a little extreme to lump her in with that crowd. Nor is she a pacifist/isolationalist either. She is a tad hawkish on foreign policy but i don't think she is going to go around advocating the overthrow of govts. There weren't any wars during Clinton's presidency. There were only limited military engagements.
This statement is puzzling. Clinton supported regime change in Iraq and Libya--and was an accomplice in the unconstitutional military coup in Honduras. Her record on foreign policy is abysmal, mirroring that of many neocons.
Not to me it isn't. Hillary Clinton's foreign policy record is that of her husband's as far as I'm concerned. It's not that of Bush's or Obama's for that matter. She took a stand in Iraq that a vast majority of other Senators took, both Republican and Democrat. Her vote was partly political and partly based upon the evidence. Her husband had a chance to overthrow Hussein and didnt. I'm assuming that she agreed moreso with him and less so with Bush.
Her job as Secretary of State was to support the President. Libya is Obama's and not Hillary's call. I'm assuming that you like Obama because you attach Libya to Hillary and not him, though he was, after all the President in charge at the time it occurred. Hillary Clinton doesn't set policy, Obama does.
The circuitous nature of your logic is impressive. Clinton voted for regime change in Iraq. American military intervention there has proven disastrous.
She also advocated for regime change in Libya, another disastrous decision. The fact that she hasn't distanced herself from this policy since leaving her position as Secretary of State confirms that she wasn't "just following orders" as you seem to believe.
As far as Honduras goes, Obama gave her authority to formulate policy in response to the military coup. Despite the fact that our ambassador there and many of her aides pressured her to reject the coup's legitimacy, she helped legitimate it.
Hillary Clinton's foreign-policy record is abysmal.
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