... certainly cause for concern.
... I'm am absolutely sure that you know how simplistic that is.
The Haaretz March 09 opinion piece by Alexander Griffing titled
On Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton Is the Only Republican Left Standing, Griffing writes:
Hillary Clinton is by far the best known commodity on either side of the U.S. presidential primaries, and that’s both her greatest asset and her biggest liability. She’s also a liberal interventionist of the old school — the only candidate in the field to have advanced the decapitation of a dictator — and that foreign policy philosophy means she stands alone in the field of candidates for the U.S. presidency, even though Republican presidents are its better-known latter-day flag-wavers.
Clinton on the Democrat's ‘far right’
Indeed, liberal interventionism isn’t so popular on the left. When Hawaii Democrat Tulsi Gabbard, an Iraq war veteran and rising star in the party, recently resigned her leadership role in the Democrat National Committee (whose leadership must stay neutral in the primary) to endorse Bernie Sanders, that endorsement focused solely on foreign policy — rejecting Clinton’s platform. The only mention of the Middle East in the debate between Sanders and Clinton before Sanders’ surprise upset in the Michigan primary this week was Sanders slamming spending on the Iraq war, trillions he deemed could have gone to rebuilding infrastructure in places like Flint and to education in ‘collapsing’ public school systems like in Detroit.
Gabbard’s endorsement and resignation is the manifestation of a much-discussed dynamic in this election so far — that Hillary Clinton is far to the right of her party, especially the base, on foreign policy. Gabbard said that, “As a veteran of two Middle East deployments, I know firsthand the cost of war...We need a commander in chief who will not waste precious lives and money on interventionist wars of regime change.” She didn’t mention Clinton by name but alluded to her voting in favor of Bush’s invasion of Iraq and her interventionist leanings in Libya and Syria.
Of the five major candidates left in the race, only Clinton clings to the decades-old foreign policy dynamic that has pervaded Washington since WWII — classic liberal interventionism. Clinton’s worldview, bolstered by hundreds of foreign policy advisors, asserts that the United States must “lead” the world to maintain liberal values internationally.
Clinton’s globocop approach is more easily associated today with Republicans, since George H.W. Bush co-opted it from the Democrats in his "New World Order" speech before the first Iraq war. On September 11, 1991, speaking before the U.S. Congress, Bush said, “The cost of closing our eyes to aggression is beyond mankind's power to imagine. This we do know: Our cause is just; our cause is moral; our cause is right.” Speaking at the end of last year before the Council on Foreign Relations, Clinton declared “that America must lead a worldwide fight” to defeat ISIS and “radical jihadism,” which “will require a sustained commitment in every pillar of American power.” Indeed, her language familiarly echoes that employed by Bush Jr. in his speech to Congress after 9/11 when he promised to “direct every resource at our command — every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence, and every necessary weapon of war — to the destruction and to the defeat of the [Al-Qaida] global terror network.”
The ongoing 'collateral damage' wrought by this "globocop" approach is truly heartbreaking.
