My take on Hillary Clinton's motives in breaking with Obama on foreign policy

[karynnj]

5. I think so too - and that seemed to be the case in Afghanistan

where insider reports were that she wanted an even larger surge.

In terms of what this means about her as a person, this is the alternative that makes her look more principled. In this case, she is simply defining the kind of foreign policy President she would be. If she runs, this is something that she - very honestly - should do.

This might, however, put her far from where the majority of Democrats are. Not to mention, I think the country is very war weary - as Obama said recently. (I also think it would have been an incredibly bad idea to give potent weapons to the Syrian rebels. I would actually have less problem with the US bombing, than with giving anti aircraft weapons to the rebels as McCain wanted. Think of Obama in Putin's place had they shot down an airplane.)

The scary thing is that I think most people are more likely to vote on domestic issues - not foreign policy. Yet a President has more latitude to take military action than to make peace. An attack can initially be done either covertly (and illegally) or unilaterally -- any treaty needs 67 votes.