Listening to Hillary's speech today, where have we heard this before? [View all]

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Seem to have heard most of this address before - now, having listened to this, a dreadful feeling building for a long time is only stronger. Back to the endless twilight struggle of the Cold War, the ashes of victory in our mouths in unending wars: the Global War on Terrorism, the invasions of Iraq, the regime changes, the Code Reds, Red Lines, and sectarian holy wars of what remains of North Africa, the Gulf wars, and the Levant. Back to the optional wars that nobody really seems to understand that never end but the burning embers of which always blow back on us.

In President Hillary Clinton's America, we fight all wars at once, none ends on nearly the clean, final terms of the last "good war" America declared that FDR did not quite live to see the end of. Then came Truman, the Loyalty Oaths, and Korea . . . and without so much as a breath or a doubt, the beginning of our next long war in Vietnam.

It's in this part of her address on Roosevelt Island, and it is who Hillary really is, in her own words, and her America will become ours, if we allow it:

No other country on Earth is better positioned to thrive in the 21st century. No other country is better equipped to meet traditional threats from countries like Russia, North Korea, and Iran – and to deal with the rise of new powers like China.

No other country is better prepared to meet emerging threats from cyber attacks, transnational terror networks like ISIS, and diseases that spread across oceans and continents.

As your President, I’ll do whatever it takes to keep Americans safe.

And if you look over my left shoulder you can see the new World Trade Center soaring skyward.

As a Senator from New York, I dedicated myself to getting our city and state the help we needed to recover. And as a member of the Armed Services Committee, I worked to maintain the best-trained, best-equipped, strongest military, ready for today’s threats and tomorrow’s.

And when our brave men and women come home from war or finish their service, I’ll see to it that they get not just the thanks of a grateful nation, but the care and benefits they’ve earned.

I’ve stood up to adversaries like Putin and reinforced allies like Israel. I was in the Situation Room on the day we got bin Laden.

Who else feels in their bones that their bones are weary of unending wars and the wars to come, and this will all end badly?