Ripping GOP front-runner Donald Trump for saying NATO should pay more of its fair share, 68-year-old Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham laid out her foreign policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Hillary’s attack on Trump was eerily reminiscent of former President Jimmy Carter’s attacks on Ronald Reagan in 1980, accusing him of war mongering and bad temper. With Trump’s background in business, Hillary hopes to sell herself as the foreign policy expert, something her Democratic rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) raises serious doubts about. Bernie and Trump point out Hillary backed former President George W. Bush’s Oct. 11, 2002 Iraq War Authorization, paving the way for the March 20, 2003 Iraq War, leaving the Middle East in chaos, flooded with terrorists. Hillary reluctantly admits she made a mistake backing the Iraq War.
Selling herself at Stanford as having “steady hands” in foreign policy, Hillary ignores her support Aug. 24, 2011, both military and financial, to topple Libya strongman Col. Muammar Gaddafi, flooding Libya with terrorists, leading to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] takeover of the Libyan coast. “Turning our back on our alliances, or turning our alliance into a protection racket would reverse decades of bipartisan American leadership and send and dangerous signal to friend an foe alike,” Hillary told the Hoover Institution, twisting Trump’s call for NATO to pay its fair share. Signaling the key flaw to Hillary’s foreign policy, she continues a pre-Sept. 11, Cold War mentality. Hillary agrees strangely with former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney that Russia remains the biggest threat to U.S. national security.
Hillary ripped Trump for suggesting he’d try to restore relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Promising to carry on the Obama foreign policy, Hillary accused Trump to giving Russia the keys to world domination. “Putin already hopes to divide Europe. If Mr. Trump gets his way, it will be like Christmas in the Kremlin,” pandering to the old Cold War crowd viewing Russia as the U.S. No. 1 enemy. Hillary’s foreign policy in Syria demonstrates her loyalty to Saudi’s King Salman seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Backing the Saudi proxy war against al-Assad directly pits the U.S. against Moscow and Iran. Hillary backed the July 20, 2015 Iran Nuke deal despite telling a debate audience Feb. 5 that Iran was the “world’s leading sponsor of terrorism.” Hillary’s foreign policy “experience sides with oil-rich, donor-friendly Saudi Arabia and Gulf States.
Trump’s taken a more circumspect position about Hillary’s propensity to topple Mideast dictators at the request of Saudi Arabia. While there’s no question Iran has its agenda in the Middle East, it’s not, as Hillary insists, the “world’s leading sponsor of terrorism.” That honor goes to Saudi Arabia. Five years of Saudi-backed proxy war in Syria has killed over 250,000, displaced millions to neighboring countries and led to the biggest refugee crisis in Europe since WWII. “When Republican candidates like Ted Cruz call for treating American Muslims like criminals and for racially profiling predominantly Muslims neighborhoods, it’s wrong, its counterproductive, it’s dangerous,” said Hillary. Hillary can’t see her backing of the Saudi proxy war against Syria has added to Islamic terrorism in Europe and the U.S. She doesn’t even question backing Saudi’s foreign policy.
When ISIS terrorists struck Paris Nov. 13, 2015, killing 130, injuring hundreds more, and recently in Brussels March 22, killing 31, injuring 200, Hillary calls for better law enforcement. Brussels’ terror attacks call for a “harder look at security protocols at airports and other sensitive so-called soft sites,” Hillary told the Hoover Institution. She refuses to see how her policy of backing the five-year-old Saudi proxy war has emboldened ISIS and driven terrorists to Europe. More law enforcement won’t stop Saudi’s King Salman from paying rebel groups to topple al-Assad and set up a radical Wahhabi Sunni regime in Damascus. Hillary’s Syria policy backs the same goals as ISIS and al-Qaeda’s al-Nusra Front, doing everything possible to topple al-Assad’s Shiite government. More law enforcement or security measures won’t stop terrorists from flooding Europe.
Hillary’s foreign policy strangely parallels former Bush-43 Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld who told Munich’s Security Conference Feb. 6 that “Iran is the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism.” Like Bush-43’s old Neocons, Hillary’s foreign policy mirrors that of Senate Armed Services Chairman and 2008 GOP nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), viewing all conflicts as linked to Moscow. When you consider Putin’s beef with Turkey and Saudi Arabia in Syria, it’s no accident that Hillary sides with Saudi Arabia. Receiving millions from the Saudis for the Clinton Foundation and Littlerock-based presidential library, it’s no accident Hillary backs the Saudis and Gulf States. Turkey and Saudi Arabia seek to topple al-Assad but have no real interest in battling ISIS or al-Qaeda. While it’s easy for Hillary to attack Trump’s foreign policy, it’s more difficult to face her own blind spots.
