What troubles me most about a Hillary Clinton Presidency, is foreign policy [View all]

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I don't want to get into why she so often sounds neo-con hawkish; it's enough that she does. Her corporate bent is disturbing and it's not unrelated to her hawkishness.

Oh, and yes, I know that 2014 is important and obviously imminent, but 1) I don't see anything wrong with discussing 2016. It's hardly unusual for DUers to discuss a presidential election that's 2.5 years off. 2) There's not much worth discussing as far as congressional elections in my state this year. When we get closer to November, I'll do what I always do- phone bank. And I am interested in what's happening in other states this year. Anyway, back to Hillary: I believe she'll get us into a war and that prospect is one I find horrifying. All of you devoted Hillary supporters may be right, she may be elected President, and yes she'd be better than a republican who will almost certainly get us into another way, but that's about as damned by faint praise as you can get.

I don't want to see another war. We've been at war most of my life.


Hillary Clinton Tacks Right of Obama on Foreign Policy

Hillary Clinton has begun laying out foreign-policy positions that sound a more hard-line note on Iran, Russia and other global trouble spots than is coming from President Barack Obama, underscoring how she might differentiate herself from the administration she served, should she run for president.

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Mrs. Clinton, speaking to the American Jewish Congress in New York, said that she was "personally skeptical that the Iranians would follow through and deliver" on the nuclear deal reached last year.

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She added that the deal was a "development worth testing," though she hinted that military action should remain a consideration if the agreement collapses. "Let's be clear. Every option does remain on the table," she said.

In previous appearances recently, Mrs. Clinton drew parallels between the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine and Adolf Hitler before the Second World War.

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Speaking in California earlier this month, Mrs. Clinton said Mr. Putin's claim that his moves in Ukraine were meant to protect ethnic Russians echoed Hitler's argument in the 1930s that he wanted to protect Germans living outside of the country.

Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., said Mrs. Clinton and her husband are much admired in Israel. However, he said, "Israelis don't like world leaders being compared to Hitler. Whatever else Putin has done, he's not putting six million people in an oven."

Rosa Brooks, who worked in the Pentagon during Mr. Obama's first term and now teaches law at Georgetown University, said that Mrs. Clinton's remarks on Russia and Iran seem aimed at "positioning" herself for a possible presidential bid. She said the comments are at variance with the "sober-minded" views Mrs. Clinton expressed when she served in the administration.

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