by Mike Krieger
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\n<\/div>\n\u00a0Hillary\u2019s record includes supporting the barbaric \u201ccontras\u201d against the Nicaraguan people in the 1980s, supporting the NATO bombing of the former Yugoslavia, supporting the ongoing Bush-Iraq War, the ongoing Afghan mess, and as Secretary of State the destruction of the secular state of Libya, the military coup in Honduras, and the present attempt at \u201cregime change\u201d in Syria.\u00a0Every one of these situations has resulted in more extremism, more chaos in the world, and more danger to our country.\u00a0Next will be the borders of Russia, China, and Iran. Look at the viciousness of her recent AIPAC speech (don\u2019t say you haven\u2019t been warned). Can we really bear to watch as Clinton \u201ctakes our alliance [with Israel] to the next level\u201d? Where is our sense of proportion? Cannot the media, at the least, call her out on this extremism? The problem, I think, is this political miasma of \u201ccorrectness\u201d that dominates American thinking (i.e. Trump is extreme, therefore Hillary is not).<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
\u2013 From the post:\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re Going to War\u201d \u2013 Oliver Stone Opines on the Dangerous Extremism of Neocon Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Jeffrey Sachs has been on a roll lately. His latest might be his\u00a0best one yet.<\/p>\n
Published at the Huffington Post<\/em>,\u00a0Clinton\u2019s Speech Shows That Only Sanders Is Fit for the Presidency<\/a>, is an absolute must read. Here it goes:<\/p>\n
\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHillary Clinton\u2019s\u00a0recent foreign policy speech<\/a>\u00a0was an attack on Donald Trump but was also a reminder that Clinton is a deeply flawed and worrisome candidate. Her record as Secretary of State was one of the worst in modern U.S. history; her policies have enmeshed America in new Middle East wars, rising terrorism and even a new Cold War with Russia.<\/strong> Of the three leading candidates, only Bernie Sanders has the sound judgment to avoid further war and to cooperate with the rest of the world. <\/em><\/p>\n
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Clinton is intoxicated with American power.<\/strong> She has favored one war of choice after the next: bombing Belgrade (1999); invading Iraq (2003); toppling Qaddafi (2011); funding Jihadists in Syria (2011 till now). The result has been one bloodbath after another, with open wounds until today fostering ISIS, terrorism, and mass refugee flows. <\/em><\/p>\n
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In her speech, Clinton engaged in her own Trump-like grandiose fear mongering: \u201c[I]f America doesn\u2019t lead, we leave a vacuum \u2014 and that will either cause chaos, or other countries will rush in to fill the void. Then they\u2019ll be the ones making the decisions about your lives and jobs and safety \u2014 and trust me, the choices they make will not be to our benefit.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
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This kind of arrogance \u2014 that America and America alone must run the world \u2014 has led straight to overstretch: perpetual wars that cannot be won, and unending and escalating confrontations with Russia, China, Iran and others that make the world more dangerous. It doesn\u2019t seem to dawn on Clinton that in today\u2019s world, we need cooperation, not endless bravado. <\/em><\/p>\n
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Clinton professed her belief \u201cwith all my heart that America is an exceptional country \u2014 that we\u2019re still, in Lincoln\u2019s words, the last, best hope of earth.\u201d Yet surely President Lincoln was speaking in moral terms, not in Clinton\u2019s militaristic terms. Lincoln did not mean that the last best hope of earth should send NATO bombers into Libya, the CIA into Syria, and Special Ops forces into countless other countries. Surely Lincoln would have been more prudent than to push NATO expansion to Russia\u2019s very doorstep in Ukraine and Georgia, thereby triggering a violent response from Russia and a new Cold War.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
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Clinton lacks all self-awareness of how poorly she performed as Secretary of State. She trumpets her \u201csuccesses\u201d as follows:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
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Unlike [Trump], I have some experience with the tough calls and the hard work of statecraft. I wrestled with the Chinese over a climate deal in Copenhagen, brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, negotiated the reduction of nuclear weapons with Russia, twisted arms to bring the world together in global sanctions against Iran, and stood up for the rights of women, religious minorities and LGBT people around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n
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Pure braggadocio. While Clinton \u201cwrestled with China\u201d over a climate deal, she failed to achieve one. While she \u201cbrokered a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas,\u201d she failed to head off the disastrous Gaza War in the first place. While she \u201cnegotiated the reduction of nuclear weapons with Russia,\u201d she championed a remarkably confrontational approach with Russia based on NATO expansion to Ukraine and Georgia and a new nuclear arms race that will cost American taxpayers more than $355 billion over a decade. While she claims to have \u201cstood up for the rights of women [and] religious minorities,\u201d her Syrian adventurism left Syria devastated, displaced 10 million people, and destroyed the religious minority communities she claimed to defend. <\/em><\/p>\n
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Clinton declared that she has a plan to defeat ISIS, but ISIS wouldn\u2019t even exist were it not for Clinton\u2019s \u201cregime change\u201d policy in Syria. ISIS emerged as a result of the US policy to partner with Saudi Arabia to topple Syria\u2019s Bashar al-Assad. This mistaken policy created the chaos in which ISIS gained ground and weaponry, including US weaponry that was diverted from American-backed jihadists.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n