I trust Hillary on foreign policy. People complain that she's a hawk or "neo-con." [View all]
That she's an imperialist who wants to wage wars for profit. That's total nonsense.
People both on the left and the right like to pretend that foreign policy, military policy is easy. It's not. The right thinks all we need to do is be more aggressive, drop more bombs. Wrong. The left thinks all we need to do is nothing. Also wrong.
The problem is, in most cases, there are no good options. The only hope is the least bad option. And choosing the least bad option is very difficult, and requires really understanding the facts of the ground. Look at Syria and Libya.
In Syria, we did (basically) nothing. What happened? Huge numbers of people were murdered. ISIS got more powerful and was then able to move back into Iraq and take over cities.
In Libya, NATO ran an air campaign to prevent Gadafi from mass murder. What happened? Well, the immediate mass murder was averted, but then it descended into chaos and war, and ISIS moved in.
Anyone who can say with confidence that either of those would have turned out better if the US or NATO had acted differently is full of it. It might have, but it might have been worse. There are only bad choices. Doing nothing is a bad choice. Helping rebels overthrow murderous war criminal dictators is a bad choice. And going in with a huge occupying force is a bad choice.
Someone's going to be making these difficult decisions, and I for one trust someone with Hillary's knowledge and experience to make them.
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