Reminds me of the overly hubristic boast of yesteryear: Witch hunt? You bet! And we'll get her husband, too!
I report and link. You decide. - J :)
From a Breitbart.com AFP article, Hillary Clinton calls for 'internationalist' foreign policy:
Hillary Clinton calls for 'internationalist' foreign policy [/] Oct 31 7:09 PM US/Eastern
New York Senator Hillary Clinton called for a broad reform of US foreign policy that would include better cooperation with other nations and bilateral talks with enemy nations. [/] Criticizing President George W. Bush's foreign policy from Iraq to Afghanistan and North Korea to Iran, the wife of former president Bill Clinton called for a more internationalist approach to foreign policy in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, a New York-based foreign policy think tank.
"First, and most obviously, we must by word and deed renew internationalism for a new century," said Clinton, a likely Democratic Party presidential candidate for the 2008 election. [/] "We did not face World War II alone,
N.B. And it was not "our finest hour". It was Britain's finest hour. Our finest hour was refusing to join the rest of the world in paying tribute to the Barbary Coast pirates (Islamic types, as I recall.) and sending the Marines to "the shores of Tripoli."
we did not face the Cold War alone, and we cannot face the global terrorist threat or other profound challenges alone either," she said.
N.B. But unless we are willing to stand alone when necessary, we will lack the moral authority to ask others to stand with us.
Clinton also defended the idea of bilateral talks with nations that Washington has been avoiding, such as Iran and Cuba.
N.B. Has she been channeling Neville Chamberlain as well as Eleanor Roosevelt?
"We must value diplomacy as well as a strong military," Clinton continued. "We should not hesitate to engage in the world's most difficult conflicts on a diplomatic front."
N.B. "Speak softly, but carry a big stick" - #26. "Talk tough. Cave in. Declare victory. When forced by personal scandal bomb empty tents and aspirin factory" - actions of #42. Whither goeth would be #44?
[...] Clinton blasted what she said was the Bush administration's "simplistic division of the world into good and evil. They refuse to talk to anyone on the evil side, as some have called that idealistic. I call it dangerously unrealistic."
N.B. Some sorts of governments and cultures generate much more misery, oppression, injury, death, aggressive terroristic war, and general moral evil than others. But the view from inside the bubble of our educational and media elites seems to obscure this. The optical properties of bubbles appear to be quite weird.
[...] "In an increasingly interdependent world," Clinton said, "it is in our interest to stand for human rights, to promote religious freedom, democracy, women's rights, social justice and economic empowerment."
N.B. This is marvelously in line with the hero person authors of the great proclamations of 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Karl Marx.
"But reality is, we cannot force others, nations and people, to accept those values. We have to support those who embrace them and lead by example,"
N.B. Translation: "Let the riffraff of the world remain riffraff as they terrorize and develop WMD. We must behave like the morally superior people that we are."
she said. [My ellipses and emphasis]
