Hillary ‘Like With a Cloth’ Clinton popped up in response to the Signal situation with a New York Times op-ed titled, “How Much Dumber Will This Get?”
Clinton’s goal is really less about attacking Trump, that’s just the topline, and more about resurrecting her tattered reputation.
“As secretary of state during the Obama administration, I argued for smart power, integrating the hard power of our military with the soft power of our diplomacy, development assistance, economic might and cultural influence. None of those tools can do the job alone. Together, they make America a superpower. The Trump approach is dumb power. Instead of a strong America using all our strengths to lead the world and confront our adversaries, Mr. Trump’s America will be increasingly blind and blundering, feeble and friendless.”
Let’s recap Hillary’s actual record. She tried to cut a deal with Russia, only to have the Russians laugh at her. She spent a lot of time yelling at Israel’s Netanyahu over the phone. And then she decided to bomb Libya and invade it because Sidney Blumenthal told her it would make her president. (It didn’t.)
All the “it takes a village” nonsense drained endless billions without remotely making us any stronger.
Smart power, an Obama anachronism, mostly meant trying to influence without assertion, leading from behind, signing worthless deals and giving away everything we have to everyone. (It didn’t work.)
Other countries are taking America seriously right now. Who took us seriously under Hillary and Obama?
And what did Hillary achieve? In her timeless “landed at an airport under fire” fashion, lies and more lies.
“Diplomats win America friends so we don’t have to go it alone in a competitive world. That’s how my colleagues and I were able to rally the United Nations to impose crippling sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program and ultimately force Tehran to stop its progress toward a bomb — something Mr. Trump’s bluster has failed to do,” Hillary argues.
Even Obama admitted the fake Iran Deal didn’t stop Iran’s progress toward a nuclear bomb. It slowed it down at best.
Hillary Clinton is once again lying in the hopes of rewriting her terrible foreign policy record.
All Hillary has is empty JFK-era prattle about “winning hearts and minds.” Hearts and minds don’t win wars and they rarely build alliances except when there are deeper cultural compatibilities. Power is the foundation of an international order. And it’s based on respect. Foreign aid is strategic when it’s aimed at directly achieving goals rather than building nebulous goodwill (while mostly pushing leftist agendas like population control and equity.)
The proof is in the pudding. The Hillary era saw multiple low points for American power. Including in Benghazi. And no amount of lies will change that.
What did Hillary really achieve? A lot of foreign money for her family foundation and using foreign diplomats to frame her political opponent as a spy.
