Welcome to the second in a series of arguments of just why
Liberals Are, yes, Dead Tired of Hillary!
Three blogposts ago, you’ll find the first in the series. That
argument gave the domestic political reasoning of why Liberals Are Dead Tired
of Hillary.
For the foreign political reasoning, I give you the
highlights of a crystal-clear damning of Saint Hillary (aka, Deleter of the
Free World, Post cover, March 11) distilled from a review of two books, Hard Choices by
Hillary Clinton, and HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton, by
Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, written by Jackson Lears in the Feb. 5 edition
of the London Review of Books.
To wit:
- Despite [the differing
styles of the Bush and Clinton candidacies], the intent is the same:
rewarding friends and punishing enemies, the latter with such precision
that one of her staffers fears Hillary will come to seem little different
from “Nixon in a pantsuit.”
- Exceptionalists (as in,
America must honor its unique responsibility for global leadership) like
Clinton are unable to conceive of a multipolar world where some nations
might prefer to go their own way.
- While she admits she “got
it wrong” in voting for the invasion of Iraq, she shows no sign of having
learned from her mistake … Clinton’s courtship of [General David Petraeus]
reveals a deeper amnesia. Like most Washington policymakers, she has
forgotten the failure of counterinsurgency in Vietnam.
- The exceptionalist outlook
transcends party ideology; it is embraced by the Clintons, the Bushes and the
entire Washington establishment. We badly need a public debate that
challenges this consensus. But we are unlikely to have it, given the widespread
assumption that Hillary Clinton is the only alternative to the all too
real nightmare of Republican rule. (From a letter written in reply to a
reader, March 19 edition)
Next: Running for Your Life: Finally, Outside Again
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