Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy: Doing stupid stuff
Consider Libya, Russia, China, Syria/Mideast - and war
Oct 31, 2016
Hillary Clinton, Democratic presidential nominee, has derided “Don’t do stupid stuff” as a worthless organizing principle of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy.
But her substitute of “Doing stupid stuff” is even worse.
As Secretary of State during President Barack Obama’s first term, Mrs. Clinton single-handedly compounded problems of international terrorism, nuclear proliferation, war, refugees, and human rights from North Korea and China to South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa to Europe and Russia.
In sum, Mrs. Clinton foreign policy makes former President George W. Bush look like a Talleyrand, Metternich or Bismarck.
Emblematic was her imbecilic orchestration of war against Libya in 2011 to overthrow anti-jihadist Muammar Gaddafi. The secular Libyan leader had recently abandoned weapons of mass destruction, had paid billions in compensation to the victims of the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, and had been removed from the United States list of state sponsors of terrorism. He was no threat to any national security interest of the United States.