So Hilarity Clinton won South Carolina with a campaign based
upon her political experience. She is the ultimate status quo candidate.
Hillary has accepted that she can’t really make any significant changes, and
she’s not going to waste time trying. She’s ready and willing to preside over
the present corrupt system. Hillary Clinton is a good investment for a
billionaire. She poses as a progressive and even sometimes as a populist but she
is neither. Witness her offense at Sanders referring to her as “a moderate,” a
term she readily uses to describe herself when speaking to affluent audiences.
As First Lady she promoted health care reform, without
success. She also took a keen interest in foreign policy, as she had since
supporting the Vietnam War in college as a Goldwater Girl. She’s always boasted
about being “strong” on what she calls “national defense.” She urged her
husband Bill to bomb Yugoslavia, in 1995 and 1999 as that country split up. For
the first time since World War II a European capital, Belgrade, was bombed—by
NATO forces. The results have been disastrous: failed states in Bosnia and
Kosovo, more ethnic cleansing, refugees, heroin trafficking.
What about experience
as a U.S. Senator? In her two terms she sponsored 713 pieces of legislation.
Three passed, all unanimously. One established a National Historic Site in New
York, another renamed a post office, another renamed a highway. More
importantly: while in the Senate, Hillary voted for the Iraq War Resolution in
October 2002. She defended that vote all the way up to 2014, when she finally
called her vote a “mistake.”
As Secretary of State, Hillary supported a continued U.S.
military presence in Iraq, even though the Bush administration and the Iraqi
government had agreed that all troops would be withdrawn by 2011. Hillary just
didn’t want to get out.
When mass protests erupted in Syria in 2011, Hillary
advocated arming Syrian opposition forces, to bring down the government by
force. But these forces were dominated by al-Qaeda aligned factions. Many arms
the U.S. provided are now in the hands of al-Nusra and ISIL. And she wanted to
set up a no-fly zone in Syria—more bombing.
As Secretary of State she advocated bombing Libya, claiming
falsely that Col. Gadhafy was about to commit genocide. The U.S./NATO bombing,
which was supposed to be for humanitarian purposes, became an instrument for
regime change and the murder of Gadhafy, sodomized by a knife while jihadis
cheered. “We came, we saw, he died.” Libya
today is a country in ruins, with two governments, ethnic cleansing, and rule
by militias including those loyal to al-Qaeda or ISIL. Hillary bears much
responsibility for this.
Hillary Clinton chose as her Under Secretary of State for
Eastern Europe a close aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, the neocon Victoria
Nuland, who like Hillary pressed for the expansion of the NATO alliance to
surround Russia. Her State Department boasted that the U.S. has invested five
billion dollars in an effort to support the so-called “European aspirations of
Ukraine.” This was an investment in regime change. It led to the violent
overthrow of an elected government in 2014. The point was to install a leader
who would not just bring Ukraine into the EU but into NATO and drive the
Russians out of the Crimean Peninsula where their fleet has been headquartered
for over 200 years. Ukraine hasn’t benefitted from the coup. Neo-fascists who
played a decisive role in the coup have been empowered like nowhere else in
Europe. Ethnic minorities have come under attack. The economy has collapsed.
The country is in a state of civil war.
Hilarity has boasted that the war-criminal Henry Kissinger
has praised her, saying she’d run the State Department better than anyone had
run it in a long time. Warmongers warm towards Hillary Clinton. She is one of
them.
The simplistic gender identity argument for Hillary that she
is female and “it’s time to have a woman as president” ignores the terrible
impact of the Clintons’ domestic and foreign policies on women (poor and non-white
women especially) at home and abroad – from the vicious 1996 welfare “reform”
(the elimination of poor families’ prior entitlement to basic federal cash
assistance, heartily applauded by First Lady Hillary) to the U.S. wars. There’s
also the highly organized identity politics of race, whereby the African-American
bourgeois elite rally the vote for corporate and police-state Clinton.
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