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Clinton’s Likely Pentagon Chief Already Advocating for More Bombing and Intervention

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Michele Flournoy, the former Defense Department official whom Defense One calls “the woman expected to run the Pentagon under Hillary Clinton,” this week advocated for “sending more American troops into combat against ISIS and the Assad regime than the Obama administration has been willing to commit.” In an interview with that outlet, Flournoy “said she would direct U.S. troops to push President Bashar al-Assad’s forces out of southern Syria and would send more American boots to fight the Islamic State in the region.” She had previously “condemned the Obama administration’s ISIS policy as ineffectual,” denouncing it as “under-resourced.”
This week, Flournoy specifically advocated what she called “limited military coercion” to oust Assad. In August 2014, Obama announced what he called “limited airstrikes in Iraq” — and they’re still continuing almost two years later. Also note the clinical euphemism Flournoy created — “military coercion” — for creating a “no-bomb zone” that would entail “a declaratory policy backed up by the threat of force. ‘If you bomb the folks we support, we will retaliate using standoff means to destroy [Russian] proxy forces, or, in this case, Syrian assets,’” she said. Despite D.C. conventional wisdom that Obama is guilty of “inaction” in Syria, he has sent substantial aid, weapons, and training to Syrian rebels while repeatedly bombing ISIS targets in Syria.

Even U.S. military officials have said that these sorts of no-fly or no-bomb guarantees Flournoy is promising — which Hillary Clinton herself has previously advocated — would risk a military confrontation with Russia. Obama’s defense secretary, Ash Carter, told a Senate hearing last December that the policy Clinton advocates “would require ‘substantial’ ground forces and would put the U.S. military at risk of a direct confrontation with the Syrian regime and Russian forces.” Nonetheless, the Pentagon official highly likely to be Clinton’s defense secretary is clearly signaling their intention to proceed with escalated military action. The carnage in Syria is horrifying, but no rational person should think that U.S. military action will be designed to “help Syrians.”

It’s long been beyond doubt that Clinton intends to embark upon a far more militaristic path than even Obama forged — which is saying a lot given that the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner has bombed seven predominantly Muslim countries in seven years. Repeatedly, Clinton has implicitly criticized Obama for excessive hostility toward Israel, and she has vowed more uncritical support for Israel and to move closer to Netanyahu. Just yesterday, Clinton surrogates battled Sanders’s appointees in the Democratic Platform Committee meeting over Israel and Palestine, with Clinton’s supporters taking an even more hard-line position than many right-wing Israeli politicians. Clinton was the leading voice that successfully convinced a reluctant Obama to involve the U.S. in the disastrous intervention in Libya.

Her past criticisms of Obama’s foreign policy were based overwhelmingly in her complaints that he did not use enough military force, including in Syria. As the New York Times put it in 2014: “That Mrs. Clinton is more hawkish than Mr. Obama is no surprise to anyone who watched a Democratic primary debate in 2008. … She favored supplying arms to moderate Syrian rebels, leaving behind a somewhat larger residual military force in Iraq and waiting longer before withdrawing American support for President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt during the historic protests in Cairo.”
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https://theintercept.com/2016/06/22/hillary-clintons-likely-pentagon-chief-already-advocating-for-more-bombing-and-intervention/

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Appreciate the congrats for being right on the Banished Bobs thread, I don't want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!
 
Don't really get the point of posting it.

Most people know Hillary is already hawkish on foreign policy, so it would follow that her advisor would be too.

Eta: already been said I see.
 
Deacsfan27 said:
Don't really get the point of posting it.

Most people know Hillary is already hawkish on foreign policy, so it would follow that her advisor would be too.

Eta: already been said I see.
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Did you read the article before making this comment?
 
She's not even Clinton's advisor. Bob 2 doing the yeoman's work of imparting knowledge from shitty sources predicting the future to inform people of what they already know about Clinton's foreign policy predilections and -- bonus -- in a brand new thread. Educate me Bob 2!
 
BobStackFan4Life said:
I think a lot of her supporters are ignorant or in denial about just how hawkish she is.
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More hawkish than Obama but less hawkish that most Republicans? Did I get it right?
 
Shooshmoo said:
She's not even Clinton's advisor. Bob 2 doing the yeoman's work of imparting knowledge from shitty sources predicting the future to inform people of what they already know about Clinton's foreign policy predilections and -- bonus -- in a brand new thread. Educate me Bob 2!
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And yet you clicked the thread in spite of who started it.
 
PhDeac said:
More hawkish than Obama but less hawkish that most Republicans? Did I get it right?
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I doubt President Clinton will be less hawkish than most Republicans, but she will be far more hawkish than Obama. Partial credit.
 
I'm going to start posting pretty pictures of Hillary on every new thread Bob 2 starts so everyone has to look at her beautiful face.

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This place would largely be a Clinton circle jerk without the handful of us who dislike her. Think how boring that would be. Hate away.
 
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