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Related: About this forumNeocon War Hawks Want Hillary Clinton Over Donald Trump. No Surprise—They’ve Always Backed Her
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Neocon War Hawks Want Hillary Clinton Over Donald Trump. No SurpriseTheyve Always Backed Her
With Trumps impending nomination, neocons are reaffirming what theyve always thought: Hillary Clintons foreign policy is right up their alley.
BY Branko Marcetic
March 23, 2016
Concerned that Trump would destroy American foreign policy and the international system, author Max Boot told Vox that Clinton would be vastly preferable. Historian Robert Kagan has also come out in favor of Clinton, saying he feels comfortable with her on foreign policy. Eliot Cohen, a former Bush administration official who has been called the most influential neocon in academe, declared Clinton the lesser evil, by a large margin.
When President Obama nominated Clinton for secretary of state in 2008, Richard Perle, one of the Iraq Wars primary cheerleaders and chairman of the Defense Policy Board in the lead-up to the war, said he was relieved. There's not going to be as much change as we were led to believe.
In the same interview, George Shultz, secretary of state under Ronald Reagan and an early proponent of what would come to be known as the Bush doctrine, stated that: I think she could be a very good secretary of state. Deeming her well-informed and curious, Shultzs only concern about her selection was that, having competed against Obama in a sometimes vicious campaign for the Democratic nomination, their relationship might be weakened.
That same year, conservative writer Noemie Emery, writing for the neocon Weekly Standard, dubbed Clinton The Great Right Hope. She wrote about the relief felt by conservatives that she was bringing her steely-eyed stare to the position of secretary of state, saying:
As for the conservatives, many of those who began 2008 willing to do anything to defeat her tended to end it feeling sorry she lost. They began to tell themselves and each other they would sleep better at night if she were the nominee of her party.
Clinton, she wrote, had begun the campaign as the former First Feminist and ended it as the Warrior Queen, more Margaret Thatcher than Gloria Steinem.
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Neocon War Hawks Want Hillary Clinton Over Donald Trump. No Surprise—They’ve Always Backed Her (Original Post)
imagine2015
May 2016
OP
Recommended. I have been a subscriber to ITT since the earth started cooling.
guillaumeb
May 2016
#1
Yep. We are about to enter into a six month (mayeb longer) period of heavy censorship.
reformist2
May 2016
#4
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. Recommended. I have been a subscriber to ITT since the earth started cooling.
And now it is warming again.
imagine2015
(2,054 posts)2. Since the earth started cooling. LOL
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)3. k&R. We used to discuss this all the time here, not that long ago. nt
reformist2
(9,841 posts)4. Yep. We are about to enter into a six month (mayeb longer) period of heavy censorship.
imagine2015
(2,054 posts)5. What do you mean?