President Barack Obama meets with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office shortly after she was confirmed and sworn in on Wednesday, January 21, 2009. (White House Photo/Pete Souza)
Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic: Is There a Hillary Doctrine?
A conversation with Alter Egos author Mark Landler, the only person who thinks more than I do about the foreign-policy differences between Obama and his former secretary of state.
It has seemed to me, for as long as I’ve been watching Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama make foreign and national-security policy, that the differences in outlook and approach between the two of them are fundamental and dramatic. I would call these differences profound, but I don’t want to be accused of hyperbole. It is not just that Clinton has a bias toward action in the international arena, and that Obama is far more hesitant, far more aware (too aware, in the eyes of critics) of the downside of action; it is that there are basic differences in the way they understand America’s role in the world, and the qualities that make America exceptional. They also differ, to my eye, in their understanding of American indispensability, and of the relationship between power and diplomacy.
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WNU Editor: She has been distancing herself from President Obama .... and while many of her foreign policies have yet to be clarified, my gut is telling me that she will be far more interventionist than President Obama if she should win the White House.
3 comments:
Maybe Hillary will do more than throw cruise missiles at aspirin factories and empty Al Qaeda training camps.
Who knows, I do know she doesn't play golf.
Trump owns golf courses...does he play? Your man nonetheless
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