Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumYes. Hillary Is A Neo-Con
f there were any doubts that Hillary Clinton favors a neoconservative foreign policy, her performance at Thursdays debate should have laid them to rest. In every meaningful sense, she is a neocon and if she becomes President Americans should expect more global tensions and conflicts in pursuit of the neocons signature goal of regime change in countries that get in their way.
Beyond sharing this neocon regime change obsession, former Secretary of State Clinton also talks like a neocon. One of their trademark skills is to use propaganda or perception management to demonize their targets and to romanticize their allies, what is called gluing white hats on their side and gluing black hats on the other.
So, in defending her role in the Libyan regime change, Clinton called the slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi genocidal though that is a gross exaggeration of Gaddafis efforts to beat back Islamic militants in 2011. But her approach fits with what the neocons do. They realize that almost no one will dare challenge such a characterization because to do so opens you to accusations of being a Gaddafi apologist.
Similarly, before the Iraq War, the neocons knew that they could level pretty much any charge against Saddam Hussein no matter how false or absurd, knowing that it would go uncontested in mainstream political and media circles. No one wanted to be a Saddam apologist.
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Her supporters may as well just support Dubya, or Darth Cheney since they don't mind invading another country and starting a war.
Blue Meany
(1,947 posts)cluster bombs, so we had to knock him off. But she approved the sale of these to Israel and the Saudis and has been silent about their use in Yemen and Gaza. Meanwhile she voted against a US law that would have disallowed their use in residential areas; she tried to stop the UN ban on them; and has proceeded to ignore international laws on arms whenever it suits her.
I know that politics tends to corrupt everyone to some extent, but I have a personal loathing for those who are willing to sacrifice the lives of others to advance their careers. And she seems to be willing to do this without a second thought.