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October 16, 2007

Don't Mess With Hill...

Ayatollah you so


Hillary Clinton today moved to secure her position as the most hawkish Democrat in the 2008 presidential race, saying she would consider the use of force to compel Iran to abandon its nuclear programme.

In an article for Foreign Affairs magazine intended as a blueprint for the foreign policy of a future Clinton White House, the Democratic frontrunner argues that Iran poses a long term strategic challenge to American and its allies, and that it must not be permitted to build or acquire nuclear weapons.

..."True statesmanship requires that we engage with our adversaries, not for the sake of talking but because robust diplomacy is a prerequisite to achieving our aims."

She says she would even consider offering incentives to Iran in return for a pledge to disarm. However, she sets out a series of stringent conditions that are virtually identical to current White House policy.

Here's my "incentive": if you build centrifuges we will blow them up.

Hill has always been the most hawkish of the Dems; her domestic agenda will be horrible but she's the only one of them that I think I could trust to defend us. She's much more decisive than Bill ever could be.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at October 16, 2007 06:59 AM

Comments

She might well be the most uncompromising wartime president in history. What bothers me is who she might consider her enemies.

Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at October 16, 2007 08:28 AM

There's a lot of Vast Right-Wing Conspiracies out there, Ken.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at October 16, 2007 09:26 AM

She is uncompromising in any thing. People who lust for power and control generally are.

Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at October 16, 2007 09:40 AM

Plus, we all know who pees standing up in that relationship.

Posted by: nightfly at October 16, 2007 01:24 PM

She'll say and do anything for power. Nothing she says can be trusted.

Posted by: Gunslinger at October 16, 2007 06:44 PM

she's the only one of them that I think I could trust to defend us

I second that motion from the floor.

(Now, get up, Bingley.)

Posted by: tree hugging sister at October 17, 2007 01:49 PM