[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/magazine/how-hillary-clinton-became-a-hawk.html[/url]
Another long read! Remove if too much opinion, but I think these articles are interesting nonetheless, and this is hardly pure polemic.
[QUOTE]Clinton singled out, as she often would, the United Nations climate-change meeting in Copenhagen the previous December, where she and Obama worked together to save the meeting from collapse. She brought up the Middle East peace process, a signature project of the president’s, which she had been tasked with reviving. [B]But she was understandably wary of talking about areas in which she and Obama split — namely, on bedrock issues of war and peace, where Clinton’s more activist philosophy had already collided in unpredictable ways with her boss’s instincts toward restraint.[/B] She had backed Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s recommendation to send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan, before endorsing a fallback proposal of 30,000 (Obama went along with that, though he stipulated that the soldiers would begin to pull out again in July 2011, which she viewed as problematic). She supported the Pentagon’s plan to leave behind a residual force of 10,000 to 20,000 American troops in Iraq (Obama balked at this, largely because of his inability to win legal protections from the Iraqis, a failure that was to haunt him when the Islamic State overran much of the country). And she pressed for the United States to funnel arms to the rebels in Syria’s civil war (an idea Obama initially rebuffed before later, halfheartedly, coming around to it).
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Became a hawk?
Lol she's been a hawk since the late 80s, which I'm pretty sure is 30 years ago.
"magazine wastes immense amounts of text stating the obvious, expects copious kudos in return"
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Another reason why i dont want this woman in office.
Warmongering Cunt...
[QUOTE=27X;50176936]Became a hawk?
Lol she's been a hawk since the late 80s, which I'm pretty sure is 30 years ago.
"magazine wastes immense amounts of text stating the obvious, expects copious kudos in return"
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Yes, I'm sure that a complete genius like you knew all about the inner workings of the Obama administration and the decision making. I'm sure nothing stated in the article was new to you as you are just too clever.
I'm completely aware that she has always been a hawk, and the title is poor. But the article itself is good, and I'm pretty convinced you didn't even bother to read it.
You mean re-read?
The article itself is regurgitation and repackaging of information that's been public for quite some time into a "Clinton will kick the ass of the infidel" gloss piece.
Last I checked, Newsweek, TIME and Rolling Stone have been around for quite a while.
It's certainly a puff piece but it offers interesting insight and might just answer the "I just don't know how anyone can vote for Clinton v:v:v?" posts that are made every few hours.
[QUOTE=Deathtrooper2;50176944]Another reason why i dont want this woman in office.
Warmongering Cunt...[/QUOTE]
Cultivating and supporting a strong, prepared military doesn't necessitate using it aggressively.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;50177237]It's certainly a puff piece but it offers interesting insight and might just answer the "I just don't know how anyone can vote for Clinton v:v:v posts" that are made every few hours.
Cultivating and supporting a strong, prepared military doesn't necessitate using it aggressively.[/QUOTE]
its a pretty valid assumption considering her stance on Iraq wars, imo.
[QUOTE=Lollipoopdeck;50177282]its a pretty valid assumption considering her stance on Iraq wars, imo.[/QUOTE]
Given what she said at the time I don't think she would have authorized the invasion if she were president.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;50177316]Given what she said at the time I don't think she would have authorized the invasion if she were president.[/QUOTE]
She probably would of just done what her husband did... Effectively wage an undeclared war with cruise missiles.
I was hoping this would be an animorphs situation
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