Why would Obama want to REVERSE his own Foreign Policy emphases with a Clinton SOS appointment?? [View All]

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Someone in the Obama circle seems to keep pushing for disaster.

Hillary's pernicious denigration of Obama's competence and credibility during the primaries hold the seed of distraction and destruction for the Obama Presidency. As SOS her posture re the war, re the Arab Israeli, and Iran would really neutralize the goodwill and opportunities for real change that Obama's election has created in the world.

Don't believe it will happen. Barack is usually able of make the tough decisions. But it is certainly curious how this is happening and being leaked.

Jacob Heilbrunn in Huff post says what I am thinking.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-heilbrunn/obamas-team-of-rivals_b_143816.html

But would it be good for American foreign policy? Would it be consistent with the kind of change Obama promised on the campaign trail? Clinton's record is markedly different than Obama's. She supported the Iraq War. In 2006, she supported legalizing the torture of an individual who knows about an "imminent threat" to millions of American, but backpedaled on the idea in September 2007. In April 2008, she said the U.S. could "totally obliterate" Iran if it threatened Israel with nuclear weapons. In essence, she decided to run as a foreign policy hawk for president, figuring that she couldn't run the risk of appearing "soft" on foreign policy. Clinton represents, or has represented, what I would call the Lieberman wing of the party -- Democratic neocons based at places like the Progressive Policy Institute and the Democratic Leadership Council. They don't believe the Iraq War was itself a mistake, but that it was simply conducted ineptly by the Bush administration