Hillary Clinton and her impending wars (if elected) are the stuff of neoconservatives dreams and for the rest of us, our nightmares. From Michael Krieger at libertyblitzkrieg.com:
Your average American Hillary Clinton supporter will smugly head to the polls on November 8th, entirely self-assured of his or her vital role in the defeat of fascism in these United States. It won’t take long for such childish delusions to be vanquished by the horror of subsequent reckless and unnecessary imperial conflagrations that will be inevitably unleashed by their savior throughout the world.
The extreme dangers faced by the planet as a result of neocon warmonger Hillary Clinton becoming President have been apparent for a very long time. Oliver Stone and many others have vocally warned about it, and I’ve covered the topic on many occasions; including in the following posts [see original article, linked below, for links]:
“We’re Going to War” – Oliver Stone Opines on the Dangerous Extremism of Neocon Hillary Clinton
More Troubling Evidence That Hillary Clinton Will Start WW3
More Troubling Evidence That Hillary Clinton Will Start WW3 – Part 2
Lifelong Democrat and Former RFK Speechwriter Comes Out For Trump
Now, courtesy of a newly published article at The Washington Post, we are once again forced to confront this very uncomfortable reality. Here are a few of the more disturbing excerpts from today’s piece:
There is one corner of Washington where Donald Trump’s scorched-earth presidential campaign is treated as a mere distraction and where bipartisanship reigns. In the rarefied world of the Washington foreign policy establishment, President Obama’s departure from the White House — and the possible return of a more conventional and hawkish Hillary Clinton — is being met with quiet relief.
The Republicans and Democrats who make up the foreign policy elite are laying the groundwork for a more assertive American foreign policy via a flurry of reports shaped by officials who are likely to play senior roles in a potential Clinton White House.
It is not unusual for Washington’s establishment to launch major studies in the final months of an administration to correct the perceived mistakes of a president or influence his successor. But the bipartisan nature of the recent recommendations, coming at a time when the country has never been more polarized, reflect a remarkable consensus among the foreign policy elite.
This consensus is driven by broad-based backlash against a president who has repeatedly stressed the dangers of overreach and the limits of American power, especially in the Middle East. “There’s a widespread perception that not being active enough or recognizing the limits of American power has costs,” said Philip Gordon, a senior foreign policy adviser to Obama until 2015. “So the normal swing is to be more interventionist.”
Taken together, the studies and reports call for more-aggressive American action to constrain Iran, rein in the chaos in the Middle East and check Russia in Europe.
The studies, which reflect Clinton’s stated views and the direction she is likely to take if she is elected, break most forcefully with Obama on Syria. Virtually all these efforts, including a report that will be released Wednesday by the liberal Center for American Progress, call for stepped up military action to deter President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and Russian forces in Syria.
This is what passes off as “liberal” these days.
To continue reading: U.S. Foreign Policy ‘Elite’ Eagerly Await an Expansion of Overseas Wars Under Hillary Clinton
I would like to think that all those people “smugly” voting for Hillary Clinton will recognise Hillary as the problem when all hell breaks loose following her insertion into the White House (not just in regard to ongoing neocon-driven wars, but also in regard to all else). However . . . I am an American living in Vienna and for the past five years or so have been listening to the views of women who are members of the American Women’s Association here. Regrettably, they NEVER blame the “culprits” that they have helped put into power and what they come up with to excuse the bad behaviour and bad actions of their “leaders” simply boggles the mind (all the “mistakes” of Obama, still their “darling” are because of Bush, the Republicans and you name it — for these people, Obama, Hillary, the Democrats can never do any wrong). Yesterday at a luncheon, I endured an absolutely inane discussion of how Trump was bringing in “the most ridiculous” idea of “rigging” as some kind of “dirty trick” that he would use to make trouble following the oh-so-legitimate election results (which in a Hillary win, would go against the probably 80% support for Trump). Everyone should read the recent article by Fred Reed, “Ronald MacDonald or Lucretia,” which sadly sums up the current state of the US and its beyond-hope, dumbed-down population.
But the point is, expect very little in the way of regrets, acknowledgement of bad judgement and so forth among all the dumbed-down Hillary supporters and their “snowflake” off-spring.