2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Backs New Allied War in Libya
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35474-focus-hillary-backs-new-allied-war-in-libyaYou know, the United States was in Korea, and still is, for many years, she explained, channeling a favorite argument of Republican senator John McCain. We are still in Germany. We are still in Japan. We have a presence in a lot of places in the world that started out as a result of conflict. And if you think about South Korea, there were coups, there were assassinations, there was a lot of problems for the Koreans to build their economy, to create their democracy.
Remembering myriad details of her much-vaunted foreign policy experience, Hillary appears never to have asked why intervening in the former colonies of North Africa and the Middle East so consistently fails. The best answer I can find comes in Delphic fashion from oft-quoted Washington cynics. In Iraq, they tell us, the United States intervened and occupied and things went to hell. In Libya, the United States intervened but did not occupy and things went to hell. And in Syria, the United States neither intervened nor occupied and things still went to hell.
In other words, the problem is not in in how we intervened, but that we intervened. This puts Hillary on the wrong side of history, at least as seen by large numbers of people in the regions former European colonies. The anti-colonial sentiment appears less fervent in sub-Saharan Africa, where US Special Forces are often seen working closely with their French counterparts. But no one doubts that al-Qaeda and Daesh-affiliated groups gain strength by being the only groups truly willing to fight against a return of Western colonialism. Having failed to learn these lessons, Hillary remains the have-gun, will-travel paladin of liberal imperialism.
The new war in Libya, which she now supports, seems largely invisible to American media. But, it became headline news here in France on Thursday, when Le Monde broke through official secrecy and revealed that French special forces and clandestine agents were operating in Libya in close cooperation with their Americans and British allies.
The French Minister of Defense was furious and launched a secret investigation into who leaked the secret information to Le Monde. My guess is that the major leaks came from within the French military, where many officers feel over-extended by their current interventions in Syria and Africa.
jfern
(5,204 posts)as long as the President is a Democrat.
Hillary scares me. And I'm not alone. The Democratic party deserves to lose if they nominate this insane warmonger.
eridani
(51,907 posts)Not that this makes the situation any better.
jfern
(5,204 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I mean, fuck it. If the writing is on the wall, might as well ride the elevator up, amirite?
sort of
The Traveler
(5,632 posts)Or "benign hegemony" or whatever we're calling it these days. You're either for it ot against it. I'm against it. And if you are for it, I can't support you.
Trav
greymouse
(872 posts)Depaysement
(1,835 posts)They are no longer enough. War is necessary.
There's money to be made boys and girls. No war, no money.
Raster
(20,998 posts)-----------
*only a certain income level - or lack of it, need apply. The rest of you fine, young, rich, white kids continue on with your lives.
It's an old story.
BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)DhhD
(4,695 posts)+9 # Douglas Jack 2016-02-29 17:45
Steve Weissman, Good article but Hillary & US militarism Is more than a short term 'political' issue.
AFRICA's RICHEST NATION
Hillary Clinton, "We came, we saw, he died!" for her financing, arming & murder of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi over Libya's universal-medic are (is Bernie next?), education, employment, housing & Africa's highest standard of living. Libya was #1 financier of development-aid & investor in Africa's essential service infrastructure. Hillary's slave to world trillionaire OLIGARCHs who couldn't stomach Muammar's (Jewish mother) implementation of the gold-based African Dinar for all oil & commodity trading.
HIllary's record of approving CARPET-BOMBING of no-Afghani-hija ckers-Afghanist an, no-weapons-of-m ass-destruction -Iraq & her determinative role as Secretary of State of Libya. Hillary's State-departmen t operatives finance, arm & supply foreign mercenaries in Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt etc. because she worships oligarch wealth & Israel 1st.
THE DEEP STATE
Greater-Israel's Oded-Yinon-Plan OYP & its US daughters Project-for-a-N ew-American-Cen tury PNAC & New-World-Order NWO advanced by Netanyahu (supported by Hillary) for these destabilization , arming of our-perceived-e nemy's-enemy, bombing campaigns are clearly scheduled. General Westley Clarke describes being informed of the US role in OYP's taking out 7 countries. http://www.globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran/5166
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)I was just barely considering selling out, and then I read this.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Hillary is bought and paid for who also loves quoting Republicans when she gets hawkish.