2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I continue to be utterly mystified. [View all]Bread and Circus
(9,454 posts)You want to make excuses if a Democrat does it, but if a Republican does it... we are supposed to be against it "that's should be our mantra".
I am sorry but I don't care what party started the War in Iraq, the Democrats were complicit in allowing it to happen, especially the most ambitious, those who cast the vote for War in Iraq so they could further their Presidential ambitions.
That makes their vote ESPECIALLY egregious, because it was done for personal gain.
Shouldn't Hillary pay the political price for this? I think so unless she had become fully repentant. But she has not become fully repentant. Rather she has sent numerous signals in this current campaign of how she would be more hawkish than Sanders and more hawkish than Obama. She has also sent signals during this campaign that she will take us further down the road of entrenchment of certain unjust actions in the Middle East.
Wake up, please. Please wake up.
Hillary may not be as bad as Republicans but she is going to foster a permissiveness for further foreign military misadventures. She has the wrong people advising her and she is obviously very persuadable and succumbs to these bad advisers.
Do not be surprised in 3 or 4 years you are wondering where our foreign policy has gone and not liking the results.