From: Consortium News
By Robert Parry
Exclusive: The argument over whether Hillary Clinton is
a neocon may have been settled by her hawkish debate performance on
Thursday, which followed her Israel-pandering speech before AIPAC,
reports Robert Parry.
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| Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. |
If there were any doubts that Hillary Clinton favors a
neoconservative foreign policy, her performance at Thursday’s debate
should have laid them to rest. In every meaningful sense, she is a
neocon and – if she becomes President – Americans should expect more
global tensions and conflicts in pursuit of the neocons’ signature goal
of “regime change” in countries that get in their way.
Beyond sharing this neocon “regime change” obsession, former
Secretary of State Clinton also talks like a neocon. One of their
trademark skills is to use propaganda or “perception management”
to demonize their targets and to romanticize their allies, what is
called “gluing white hats” on their side and “gluing black hats” on the
other.
So, in defending her role in the Libyan “regime change,” Clinton
called the slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi “genocidal” though that
is a gross exaggeration of Gaddafi’s efforts to beat back Islamic
militants in 2011. But her approach fits with what the neocons do. They
realize that almost no one will dare challenge such a characterization
because to do so opens you to accusations of being a “Gaddafi
apologist.” MORE
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