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The Iraq War sank Hillary Clinton when she ran for president in 2008. The former first lady and then-US Senator's refusal to call her vote authorizing the invasion a mistake made her seem just enough like a George W. Bush clone to alienate liberal Democrats and hand some guy named Barack Obama their party’s nomination. But she doesn't seem to have taken the rejection to heart, and may have actually become even more prone to saber-rattling since.

In a recent interview with the The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, the former Secretary of State talked Syria, Israel, Iraq, and the Obama Doctrine—if that’s really what we’re calling it now. In addition to all but admitting she is ready to run for the most powerful office on planet Earth two years from now, Clinton sounded a nostalgic tone for the bellicose American rhetoric of the Cold War, defended Israel's latest brutal assault on Gaza, and knocked Obama for not meddling in foreign conflicts more often.

“Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don’t do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle,” Clinton said, offering her most aggressive criticism yet of Obama’s famously (some would say toxically) "pragmatic" approach to the world. “You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it."
The Iraq War sank Hillary Clinton when she ran for president in 2008. The former first lady and then-US Senator's refusal to call her vote authorizing the invasion a mistake made her seem just enough like a George W. Bush clone to alienate liberal Democrats and hand some guy named Barack Obama their party’s nomination. But she doesn't seem to have taken the rejection to heart, and may have actually become even more prone to saber-rattling since.

In a recent interview with the The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, the former Secretary of State talked Syria, Israel, Iraq, and the Obama Doctrine—if that’s really what we’re calling it now. In addition to all but admitting she is ready to run for the most powerful office on planet Earth two years from now, Clinton sounded a nostalgic tone for the bellicose American rhetoric of the Cold War, defended Israel's latest brutal assault on Gaza, and knocked Obama for not meddling in foreign conflicts more often.

“Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don’t do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle,” Clinton said, offering her most aggressive criticism yet of Obama’s famously (some would say toxically) "pragmatic" approach to the world. “You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it."

When Hillary is elected to the office in 2016, she will make Obama look like an angel in comparison. Hillary is the most war crazy politician who is currently active in the American politics. Her role in Kosovo, Bosnia.etc are examples. An ideal candidate to trigger a WW3.

When Hillary is elected to the office in 2016, she will make Obama look like an angel in comparison. Hillary is the most war crazy politician who is currently active in the American politics. Her role in Kosovo, Bosnia.etc are examples. An ideal candidate to trigger a WW3.

I hope that the other candidate is someone who can hold their on against her.

Who that will be? Rand Paul, Huckabee, Bush, Chris Christie, Ryan, Cruz are all probable... And with the exception of Rand Paul, all of them are crooks. But still, I'd prefer them over Hillary.

When Hillary is elected to the office in 2016, she will make Obama look like an angel in comparison. Hillary is the most war crazy politician who is currently active in the American politics. Her role in Kosovo, Bosnia.etc are examples. An ideal candidate to trigger a WW3.

Agreed with this. The sad thing is I think she's going to get elected. Rand Paul doesn't have a chance but I don't think he's be much different either.

Saying how Rand wouldn't be much different shows you either haven't payed any attention at all to his Senate record or are a doctrinaire anarchist that sees the good as the enemy of the perfect. In every area Rand would be superb to Hillary and every other candidate. The issues are too numerous for me to list on short time.

The democrats did a great job making themselves look like the peace doves while the republicans were the warmongers. If you look at their actual track records they are as much if not more war mongering than the republicans. Of course the media fails to point this out and properly vet one side. The only candidate that I think would end all the interventions would be Paul.

democrats have a history of meddling with foreign policy, but republicans are the ones who say they want to increase the budget by a shitload.. i think it was paul ryan who wanted billions more spent on foreign policy. he basically wants welfare for his buddies in the defense industry.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/us/politics/paul-ryan-budget.html?_r=0

Hilary doesn't seem to understand the ramification of having US embassy getting attacked and not able to respond in a timely manner.

This will just encourage more attack on American on foreign soil.