Hillary Clinton’s Republican foreign policy
Almost completely ignored in the wave of criticism which followed the turgid, tabloid ABC debate was a new and dangerous foreign policy proposal from Hillary Clinton.
Quite why she chose the 21st debate to enunciate this remains a mystery, but the policy is nothing short of an Imperial Presidency which extends America’s nuclear umbrella to the whole of the Middle East. Which she later extended worldwide.
As the USA is seeking a way out of the Iraq war, Hillary is proposing that US force be deployed in any fight between any two middle eastern nations and later implied that any non-nuclear nations favourable to the US worldwide would also receive the same ‘protection’. That ‘protection’ apparently means “massive retaliation” by the US on any state challenging US interests.
The issue was raised on Sunday’s Meet the Press, with David Brookes of The New York Times saying:
“I’m surprised the didn’t become much bigger in the media - can you imagine two Arab nations fighting and the United States getting in the middle of it?”
Keith Olbermann went further on his MSNBC television show, describing the policy as:
“Far further to the right of John McCain, this may be further to the right than the Bush administration policy with the Middle East, which you didn’t think was physically possible.”
“Who on Earth, from that political point of view, who could she be appealing to with this? I mean are the Superdelegates going to say ‘this is how we win, we elect a Republican calling herself a Democrat. That’s how we do it!’”
Speaking on Good Morning America, Hillary Clinton once again reinforced the neoconservative’s notion that Iran was working towards a nuclear weapon, which contradicts the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) and is an eerie echo of her failure to read the NIE about Iraq about WMDs in Iraq prior to her voting for the invasion and subsequent quagmire there, said:
“I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the president we will attack Iran… In the next ten years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them.”
It seems that John McCain isn’t the only presidential hopeful who wants to “bomb, bomb, bomb Iran”, it’s just that Hillary isn’t saying it to the tune of a Beach Boys song.