To reject the ‘Long War’ doctrine, the American Left first has to understand it.
Hawk Hillary flaps her wings. Photo by Win McNamee / Getty Images.
Hillary Clinton’s flapping of her hawkish wings only intensifies the pressure on President Barack Obama to escalate U.S. military involvement in the sectarian wars of Iraq and Syria. Domestic political considerations already are a major factor in forcing Obama to “do something” to save the Yazidis, avert “another Benghazi,” and double down in the undeclared Long War against Islamic fundamentalism.
Clinton certainly was correct in arguing that Obama’s statement “don’t do stupid stuff” is not an organizing principle of U.S. foreign policy. Instead of offering a new foreign policy, based for example on democracy, economic development, and renewable energy however, Clinton lapsed into the very Cold War thinking she once questioned in the Sixties.
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