The LA Times
notes that Hillary Clinton's promise to "obliterate" Iran if it
attacked Israel is ruffling feathers around the world. What was
striking to me about Clinton's comments were how she has abandoned
the cautious tone that she employed last year when she was
considered inevitable. In the AFL-CIO
debate held in Chicago last August, then-frontrunner Clinton
was asked to respond to Barack Obama's comments about acting on
actionable itellegence of Al Qaeda operatives being in
Pakistan.
"Well, I do not believe people running for president should
engage in hypotheticals," she remaked, and later added, "So you can
think big, but remember, you shouldn't always say everything you
think if you're running for president, because it has consequences
across the world. And we don't need that right now."
There's been a lot of Clinton love among conservatives over the
past several weeks, because she has been weakening Obama and
attacking him from the right. But we should never lose sight of how
adaptable Clinton is, and how she will literally say whatever suits
her purposes at a given moment.
topics:
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Israel, Pakistan
