The Boston Globe had an editorial in today’s paper entitled ‘Hillary Strangelove’ about Hillary Clinton’s dangerous and outlandish saber-rattling. Recently, she said in the Pennsylvania debate that she would use “massive retaliation” against Iran for an attack on Israel. She later qualified this statement on Keith Olbermann’s show to mean in the case of a nuclear attack on Israel. On Good Morning America on the day of the primary, she also said that she would “obliterate” Iran.
These statements, while demonstrating that she would not shrink from confrontation in foreign policy issues, demonstrate a lack of caution. This rhetoric has been picked up and condemned around the world. We don’t need to further our reputation as war-mongering, power hungry nation that is a threat to world peace.
Hillary Clinton desperately wants to build credibility as a candidate who is not soft on national defense. In so doing, she is demonstrating a lack of judgment that undermines her case for the Democratic nomination.
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