{"id":226449,"date":"2016-02-20T07:44:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T07:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hillary-clinton-and-the-dogs-of-war\/"},"modified":"2016-02-20T07:44:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T07:44:53","slug":"hillary-clinton-and-the-dogs-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hillary-clinton-and-the-dogs-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton and the Dogs of War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Secretary of State Clinton grudgingly admits her Iraq War vote was a \u201cmistake,\u201d but it was not\u00a0a one-off misjudgment. Clinton has consistently stood for a war-like\u00a0U.S. foreign policy that ignores international law and relies on brinkmanship and military force, writes Nicolas J S Davies.<\/p>\n

By Nicolas J S Davies<\/p>\n

A poll taken in Iowa<\/u><\/a> before the presidential caucus found that 70 percent of Democrats surveyed trusted Hillary Clinton on foreign policy more than Bernie Sanders.\u00a0But her record as Secretary of State was very different from that of her successor, John Kerry, who has overseen groundbreaking diplomatic breakthroughs with Iran, Cuba and, in a more limited context, even with Russia and Syria.<\/p>\n

In fact, Clinton\u2019s use of the term \u201cdiplomacy\u201d in talking about her own record is idiosyncratic in that it refers almost entirely to assembling \u201ccoalitions\u201d to support U.S. threats, wars and sanctions against other countries, rather than to peacefully resolving international disputes without the threat or use of force, as normally understood by the word \u201cdiplomacy\u201d and as required by the UN Charter<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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