Hillary Comes Out as the Candidate of the War Party

[Octafish]

83. It's the weirdest thing. On election day, I pull the lever marked 'D' for peace...

...and out pops more war. Election after Election. I think someone believes we won't notice.

For instance, Afghanistan.

Yet the war in Afghanistan still has the support of the vast majority of politicians in the United States. Across party lines and ideological differences, this war is seen as a justified conflict. Even Bernie Sanders, the leftmost candidate for the U.S. presidency, states on his website that “we entered [the Afghan] war with significant clarity of purpose and moral authority.”

While the original purpose of the war may have been clear—to unseat the Taliban, but also to spread counterterror efforts throughout the world—we have since lost the way. Though the commonly cited date of the defeat of the Taliban is November 22, 2001, we still fight on.

http://inthesetimes.com/article/18481/afghanistan-war-fourteen-years-later

President Obama said we would be out PDQ. Yet, there we are, now well into Year 15.

Sec. Clinton sided with the surge solution, which is an escalation, a term tragically all-too familiar for those who remember Vietnam.

I'm thinking we're never gonna see that Peace Dividend used for anything other than more war.