{"id":220978,"date":"2016-02-02T16:40:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T16:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hillary-clintons-hawkish-record\/"},"modified":"2016-02-02T16:40:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T16:40:25","slug":"hillary-clintons-hawkish-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hillary-clintons-hawkish-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton\u2019s Hawkish Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"266.51088223863\">\n<p>Surviving Iowa\u00a0in a\u00a0dead heat with Sen. Bernie Sanders, ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton now\u00a0hopes her establishment-backed campaign will\u00a0grind down her opposition and pave the way for her presidential nomination. But many Democrats remain leery of her hawkish foreign policy, writes Marjorie Cohn.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-17108\"\/>By Marjorie Cohn<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton likes to extol her foreign policy credentials, particularly her experience as Secretary of State. She attaches herself to Barack Obama\u2019s coattails, pledging to continue his policies. But she is even more hawkish than the President.<\/p>\n<p>Like Obama, Clinton touts American exceptionalism, the notion that the United States is better than any other country. In his State of the Union addresses, Obama has proclaimed America \u201cexceptional\u201d and said the U.S. must \u201clead the world.\u201d Clinton wrote in her book <em>Hard Choices<\/em> that \u201cAmerica remains the \u2018indispensable nation.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15858\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hillary-Clinton.jpg?82332e\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15858\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15858\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?82332e\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Hillary-Clinton-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-1028x1028.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-560x560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-260x260.jpg 260w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hillary-Clinton.jpg 1058w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15858\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Hillary-Clinton-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-1028x1028.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-560x560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-260x260.jpg 260w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hillary-Clinton.jpg 1058w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is this view that animates U.S. invasions, interventions, bombings and occupations of other countries. Under the pretense of protecting our national interest, the United States maintains some 800 military bases in other countries, costing taxpayers tens of billions of dollars annually. Often referred to as \u201cenduring bases,\u201d they enable us to mount attacks whenever and wherever our leaders see fit, whether with drones or manned aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Obama, who continues to prosecute the war in Afghanistan 15 years after it began, is poised to send ground troops back to Iraq and begin bombing Libya. His aggressive pursuit of regime change in Syria was met with pushback by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to Seymour Hersh.<\/p>\n<p>The President has bombed some seven countries with drones. But besides moving toward normalization of relations with Cuba, his signature foreign policy achievement is brokering the agreement to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Although Clinton supports the nuclear deal, she talks tough about Iran. In September 2015, she provocatively declared, \u201cI don\u2019t believe Iran is our partner in this agreement. Iran is the subject of the agreement,\u201d adding, \u201cI will confront them across the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2016\/02\/02\/hillary-clintons-hawkish-record\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surviving Iowa\u00a0in a\u00a0dead heat with Sen. Bernie Sanders, ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton now\u00a0hopes her establishment-backed campaign will\u00a0grind down her opposition and pave the way for her presidential nomination. But many Democrats remain leery of her hawkish foreign policy, writes Marjorie Cohn. By Marjorie Cohn Hillary Clinton likes to extol her foreign policy credentials, particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-220978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}