The Truth About Hillary Clinton's Foreign Policy Views

[moonshaz]

NOTE: I know some people reading this will probably brush off this article as worthless and even maybe laugh at it, but I'm posting it anyway. I think it's appropriate for a wide range of views to be represented here, and the views outlined here are not ones that are often, if ever, expressed in this comm. I am therefore posting this for those (and

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[sugartitty]

Lol is this article seriously trying to paint Libya as an example of successful regime change? And Obama avoided involvement in more quagmires? In what world?

[evilnel]

But you see, it's much easier to paint everything she's done in incredibly broad strokes in order to justify your irrational hatred of her. Because the world is clearly made up of hawks and pacifists, and nothing in between is real. *eyeroll*

[vindictaa]

irrational? lmao the nerve

[evilnel]

There's a difference between critiquing a candidate and blithely ascribing malevolent motivations to everything she does. The "I hate that bitch" mentality does not make detractors look super nuanced.

[vindictaa]

None of the people who regularly post in this community is part of the latter group. And no one's hatred of her is irrational.

[prehnite]

George W. Bush lied about his intentions.

I was 14 years old when Congress voted on the Iraq war, and even I could see that the administration's arguments and evidence were horseshit. Considering her position and access to classified information, Clinton sure as shit should have been able to do the same. There were months of debate and outcry leading up to that vote; she had plenty of time to examine not only evidence for and against the war.

But instead of doing that with any great diligence, she instead became the only Senate Democrat to make the erroneous claim that Saddam had ties to al-Qaeda in that very same floor speech this article cites as proof of her desire for diplomacy.

If you want diplomacy, don't vote on a bill called the "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002" and act contrite and betrayed when that authorized force is used, and don't vote against a substitute amendment that would have required the Bush administration to return to Congress and ask for another war resolution if UN

[vindictaa]

Ugh, yes, thank you for this comment

[sugartitty]

Applauding this entire comment

[jeeelim5]

Bless this comment (and thanks for all the links!)

[lightframes]

I'm sorry that happened to your aunt.

[sugartitty]

Wasn't she just calling for more sanctions against in Iran in March?

[sugartitty]

lol I went to the source too when I read the article this morning for the same reasons, and yeah, it explained a lot.