The nightmare scenario if Hillary or Biden controlled foreign policy today
A dive into Hillary Clinton's and Joe Biden's past statements about Iran reveal that America is very lucky that neither occupies the White House. Looking at their past statements shows that each was an unguided, unprincipled missile who would have made a dangerous commander-in-chief.
The Daily Wire reports that since Iran took over the news, the hashtag "#IVotedForClinton" started trending on Twitter:
The hashtag began trending Tuesday night, as word broke that Iran had retaliated against the United States for killing Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a surgical strike inside Iraq last week by targeting U.S. military stationed at Iraqi military bases.
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"My conscience is clean. I saw the danger of trump. I begged folks especially Berniebros that if they threw away their vote, they were putting this country in mortal danger," one user tweeted, attacking not just President Donald Trump's supporters but also supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) who refused to cast a ballot for Clinton in 2016 amid claims the former New York Senator rigged the Democrat's nomination process.
"We voted for intelligence. We voted for experience," tweeted another. "We voted for respect. We voted for dignity. We voted for justice. We voted for love. #IvotedforHillaryClinton."
The problem is that Hillary's past behavior had nothing to do with respect, dignity, or statesmanlike behavior. Hillary, after all, was the secretary of state who boasted after Moammar Gaddafi's death, "We came, we saw, he died." (This is the same woman who laughed when describing how her clever legal tactics protected a child rapist from getting convicted.) When it comes to spiking the football over people's deaths, Hillary and dignity...well, let's just say they're not a matched set.
Moreover, when Hillary was running for president in 2008, Hillary insisted that if Iran were to attack American interests, she would ensure a "massive retaliation":
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton warned Tehran on Tuesday that if she were president, the United States could "totally obliterate" Iran in retaliation for a nuclear strike against Israel.
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"That's a terrible thing to say but those people who run Iran need to understand that because that perhaps will deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish and tragic," Clinton said.
Hillary's promises are very different from Donald Trump's delicate, targeted retaliation, one that ended with an offer to help Iran give up terrorism and join the world's nations in peace and prosperity.
Democrat frontrunner Joe Biden's record about how he would deal with Iran is, quite possibly, even worse. In an October 2011 article that Michael Crowley wrote for The New Republic, Senator Biden, then chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "and the Democratic Party's de facto spokesman on the war against terrorism," had some interesting ideas about pacifying the Middle East after 9/11:
At the Tuesday-morning meeting with committee staffers, Biden launches into a stream-of-consciousness monologue about what his committee should be doing, before he finally admits the obvious: "I'm groping here." Then he hits on an idea: America needs to show the Arab world that we're not bent on its destruction. "Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran," Biden declares. He surveys the table with raised eyebrows, a How do ya like that? look on his face.
Aside from the fact that Iran is not part of the Arab world (they're Persians in that country), the article as a whole is a devastating look at Biden's idiocies and idiosyncrasies, all of which have gotten worse in the ensuing 19 years. It deserves close study should he become the Democrat party presidential candidate.
Americans should thank their lucky stars that the Electoral College saved them from President Clinton, Part II, and should work hard to ensure that Joe Biden never sits in the Oval Office.