Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

nationalize the fed

(2,169 posts)
24. Which one would Hillary choose?
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 10:03 PM
Jan 2015


Hillary Clinton reviews Henry Kissinger’s ‘World Order’

By Hillary Rodham Clinton
Washington Post.com September 4, 2014

When Americans look around the world today, we see one crisis after another. Russian aggression in Ukraine, extremism and chaos in Iraq and Syria, a deadly epidemic in West Africa, escalating territorial tensions in the East and South China seas, a global economy that still isn’t producing enough growth or shared prosperity — the liberal international order that the United States has worked for generations to build and defend seems to be under pressure from every quarter. It’s no wonder so many Americans express uncertainty and even fear about our role and our future in the world.

In his new book, “World Order,” Henry Kissinger explains the historic scope of this challenge. His analysis, despite some differences over specific policies, largely fits with the broad strategy behind the Obama administration’s effort over the past six years to build a global architecture of security and cooperation for the 21st century.

During the Cold War, America’s bipartisan commitment to protecting and expanding a community of nations devoted to freedom, market economies and cooperation eventually proved successful for us and the world. Kissinger’s summary of that vision sounds pertinent today: “an inexorably expanding cooperative order of states observing common rules and norms, embracing liberal economic systems, forswearing territorial conquest, respecting national sovereignty, and adopting participatory and democratic systems of governance.”

This system, advanced by U.S. military and diplomatic power and our alliances with like-minded nations, helped us defeat fascism and communism and brought enormous benefits to Americans and billions of others. Nonetheless, many people around the world today — especially millions of young people — don’t know these success stories, so it becomes our responsibility to show as well as tell what American leadership looks like.

...Kissinger is a friend, and I relied on his counsel when I served as secretary of state. He checked in with me regularly, sharing astute observations about foreign leaders and sending me written reports on his travels. Though we have often seen the world and some of our challenges quite differently, and advocated different responses now and in the past, what comes through clearly in this new book is a conviction that we, and President Obama, share: a belief in the indispensability of continued American leadership in service of a just and liberal order...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-reviews-henry-kissingers-world-order/2014/09/04/b280c654-31ea-11e4-8f02-03c644b2d7d0_story.html

Henry Kissinger Confronted While Receiving The Freedom Award




Recommendations

0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

I know who the scum bag is, and his last name is Kissinger. . . . BigDemVoter Jan 2015 #1
hank could never attain rank that respectable reddread Jan 2015 #2
Kissinger AND faux macho McCain. merrily Jan 2015 #3
Don't forget Hillary considers Kissinger one of her close friends. nt benz380 Jan 2015 #4
McCain, Kissinger and Clinton flocking birds reddread Jan 2015 #6
And she's "like a sister-in-law" to His Chimperial Majesty. hifiguy Jan 2015 #15
+ Eighty Gazillion Scuba Jan 2015 #28
Thank You! Code Pink rocks! Agony Jan 2015 #5
Just 10 days passed since MLK Day gratuitous Jan 2015 #7
''The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.'' Octafish Jan 2015 #8
+10000! nt. polly7 Jan 2015 #10
Get thee to the greatest page malaise Jan 2015 #9
Henry the K Trailrider1951 Jan 2015 #11
Proudly kicked and recommended! ColesCountyDem Jan 2015 #12
Ranked in order - the low-life scum is McSane then Kissinger LibGranny Jan 2015 #13
Kissinger should have been tried, convicted and hanged hifiguy Jan 2015 #14
War criminal for the 1%'rs harun Jan 2015 #16
If those old war criminals had a conscience, they'd be ashamed. nt Mnemosyne Jan 2015 #17
bumper sticker guillaumeb Jan 2015 #18
Easy dylan33 Jan 2015 #19
Low life scum, Senator McCain? mountain grammy Jan 2015 #20
Thank's John for making everyone notice. Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2015 #21
That's got to be a trick question. BlueMTexpat Jan 2015 #22
Yeah, thanks for calling them low-life scum, McCain navarth Jan 2015 #23
Which one would Hillary choose? nationalize the fed Jan 2015 #24
K&R for the original post and subsequent informative posts and links. JEB Jan 2015 #25
Kissofdeathinger and MICain Dont call me Shirley Jan 2015 #26
Kissinger is a piece of shit. He is lower than scum. Lint Head Jan 2015 #27
Latest Discussions»General Discussion»Henry Kissinger or CODEPI...»Reply #24