Hmm, this hasn't aged well. Maureen Dowd, 2016: Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk
How intentionally ignorant does one have to be to take Donald Trump at face value? It kind of boggles the mind, yet here's Dowd doing her willfully-dumb best (in fairness, she had a lot of company including Jill Stein):
"But he says that in most cases he would rather do the art of the deal than shock and awe.
“Unlike other candidates for the presidency, war and aggression will not be my first instinct,” he said in his maiden foreign policy speech in Washington last week, adding, “A superpower understands that caution and restraint are really truly signs of strength.”
These Kumbaya lines had the neocons leaping into Hillary’s muscular embrace."
(snip)
"You can actually envision a foreign policy debate between Trump and Clinton that sounds oddly like the one Obama and Clinton had in 2008, with Trump playing Obama, preening about his good judgment on Iraq, wanting an end to nation-building and thinking he could have a reset with Russia."
(snip)
"She has a weakness for big, swaggering, rascally he-men.
Like Donald Trump."
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/opinion/sunday/donald-the-dove-hillary-the-hawk.html