Dear Hillary supporters, how can you trust her on issues of war and peace?

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114. you can't

...and I don't need anyone's article or profile to say that.

If you watched our current Democratic president and our current Democratic Congress, it's clear that progressives can't 'trust' the majority of the political class today on foreign affairs and military policy. Almost all of the major leaders and legislators have co-opted their politics with some capitulation to the 'terror war' Bush and his corporate-military, PNAC cabal wove out of whole cloth over a decade ago.

Barack Obama set the standard for PNAC-lite applications of our military force and, while certainly opting for a great deal less actual deployments, is auguring for an open-ended, geographically unlimited extension of Bush's terror war with his AUMF proposal. That's pretty much the standard for most Democrats today; this notion that we have to 'do something' to avoid looking weak on defense and too chicken-shit to define our military policy by realism and lessons-learned during Bush's tragic terms in office.

Hillary's particular tell is her fawning appeasement of anything which serves her political interest in Israel-friendly U.S. militarism; basically PNAC-inspired foreign policy which assumes that all U.S. foreign policy is basically a defense of Israel, dominated by aggressive opposition to Iran and Syria with a perverse and contrary alliance with the Saudis. She can't be trusted, because she's wedded to the present military regime - both as Sec. of State, and as the former Senator from N.Y. - and her inability to reason past all of that appeasement to the corporate-military class which Barack Obama so obligingly left in place for the entirety of his terms in office. (Petraeus in Iraq last week advising him, ffs)

Very few of the present Democratic leaders in and outside of Congress can be said to imbue 'trust' on issues of 'war and peace' for that matter. I trust Sanders, for what it's worth. The rest need to come forward and make their appeals. I sincerely doubt they'll measure up to anything I can say I 'trust' them on in this regard.