Notwithstanding the U.S. Democratic party’s sop to socialist Bernie Sanders in the crafting of its left-leaning policy platform, the party’s foreign policy is unapologetically right-of-centre. Of course, this is the same Hillary Clinton who voted in favour of a Congressional resolution backing the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2002.
Few recall just how hawkish Clinton was in the 2008 presidential primary season – in stark contrast to the dovish Barack Obama. Journalists have been told unofficially that she regards President Obama as unnecessarily weak on matters of global affairs.
When it came to Cuba, Clinton campaigned on taking a much harder line …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
