Neoconservatives comfortable with Hillary on war / foreign policy

[AZ Progressive]

http://original.antiwar.com/charles-davis-ips/2015/04/22/hillary-the-hawk/

Hillary has already won the support of those who continually agitate for war. “I feel comfortable with her on foreign policy,” Robert Kagan, a co-founder of the neoconservative Project for the New American Century, told The New York Times last summer. “If she pursues a policy which we think she will pursue,” he said, “it’s something that might have been called neocon, but clearly her supporters are not going to call it that; they are going to call it something else.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/us/politics/historians-critique-of-obama-foreign-policy-is-brought-alive-by-events-in-iraq.html?_r=0

But Exhibit A for what Robert Kagan describes as his “mainstream” view of American force is his relationship with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who remains the vessel into which many interventionists are pouring their hopes. Mr. Kagan pointed out that he had recently attended a dinner of foreign-policy experts at which Mrs. Clinton was the guest of honor, and that he had served on her bipartisan group of foreign-policy heavy hitters at the State Department, where his wife worked as her spokeswoman.

“I feel comfortable with her on foreign policy,” Mr. Kagan said, adding that the next step after Mr. Obama’s more realist approach “could theoretically be whatever Hillary brings to the table” if elected president. “If she pursues a policy which we think she will pursue,” he added, “it’s something that might have been called neocon, but clearly her supporters are not going to call it that; they are going to call it something else.”

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/review-essay/2008-06-01/present-re-creation

Over the past two decades, Kagan has emerged as the neoconservative movement's chief foreign policy theorist. The author of numerous opinion pieces and a signatory of manifestoes of the neoconservative organization the Project for the New American Century, he has also written serious books. Notable among them is the 2006 Dangerous Nation, the first volume of an ambitious two-part project that recasts the entire history of American statecraft as an affirmation of neoconservative ideals and aspirations

Wow, if Hillary and Jeb become the two final candidates, it would already be a total win for the neocons!

[L0oniX]

1. I expect war during a Hillary presidency.

[Scootaloo]

2. Well, she did promise to obliterate an entire country if it made a move against our ally.

[AZ Progressive]

3. Hillary will probably be even more aggressive on Russia than Obama

And making Russia closer to China.

Do we really need to be feeding the fires that might cause WWIII?

[liberal_at_heart]

6. and sadly many Democrats will be okay with that.

[hifiguy]

4. Why wouldn't they be?

She's one of them wearing a different label. She's joined at the hip to the MIC and the Bank$ter$.

[Thinkingabout]

5. I expect Hillary responding appropriately to whatever situation arises.

[PosterChild]

13. + up! /nt/

[Exilednight]

7. No truer words were ever spoken than these :

“it’s something that might have been called neocon, but clearly her supporters are not going to call it that; they are going to call it something else"

[betterdemsonly]

8. The Neocons and Wallstreet are permagov!

They have it sewn up unless the democrats nominate Bernie or the republicans nominate Paul. If both are nominated they will be screwed however, and that will be very good for democracy. The Neocons and Wall Street are both elitist oligarchs, with too much control of our media and our government.

If people would wise up to them it would solve 3/4 of our problems. It would also free us up to fight the perpetual American problems like racism, religious extremism, and environmental degradation, which take up the remaining 1/4

[AZ Progressive]

10. It's no wonder why Bernie is running

He sees a clear LOSE / LOSE situation coming during the next election cycle.

[AtomicKitten]

9. Of course they are.

Which is exactly why I actively oppose Hillary.

[reddread]

11. the investor class knows whats best

for the investor class.
the rest can suck rotten eggs.

[PosterChild]

12. This just in!

Hillary Clinton: “No role whatsoever for American soldiers on the ground” in Iraq

http://wapo.st/1LlLNTR

[AZ Progressive]

14. Tucker Carlson in 2008: Hillary is a Neocon