Istanbul blasts a reminder for US not to retreat from Middle East: Hillary Clinton

[ForgoTheConsequence]

Source: The Indian Express

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has said the terror attack in Turkey is a reminder that the US can’t retreat from this part of the world and needs to deepen co-operation with allies in the Middle East and Europe to take on this threat.
“Today’s attack in Istanbul only strengthens our resolve to defeat the forces of terrorism and radical jihadism around the world. And it reminds us that the United States cannot retreat,” Clinton said in a statement yesterday.
“We must deepen our cooperation with our allies and partners in the Middle East and Europe to take on this threat,” she said adding that such cooperation is essential to protecting homeland and keeping the country safe.

Read more: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/istanbul-blasts-a-reminder-for-us-not-to-retreat-from-middle-east-hillary-clinton-2882679/

[nest]

1. Unfortunately, in the world we live in today, military intervention is inevitable.

As Democrats, we need to recognize this and support Hillary and her judgement when it come to military intervention.

[Gene Debs]

3. Seriously? Are you seriously asserting that she should be given a preemptive, no-questions-asked

free pass to initiate military intervention when and wherever she wishes, and that the rest of us should just shut up and get behind it, no matter what? Seriously!? Because I literally can't believe I just read that. Why would you give ANYBODY that? What if her judgment sucks? What if she's wrong?

By prefacing your statement with "in the world we live in today, military intervention is inevitable" even sounds like nothing more than preemptive conditioning to prepare the rest of us for a shitload of military invention. Which is what we'll get if she becomes CinC.

I hereby assert that I won't support any military intervention anywhere if it doesn't pass the smell test. I don't care who orders it. I won't be the Good German, not for Hillary Clinton or anybody else.

[nest]

5. Hillary is the most experienced candidate

and I trust her judgement

[Gene Debs]

6. Well, sleep tight, then. I wouldn't trust her with a burnt-out match.

[avaistheone1]

7. Syria...Libya....

[840high]

8. ...!100++++

[David__77]

10. No, we don't.

I do not support her judgment if she would opt to intervene on behalf of Islamist insurgents in Syria.

[nest]

15. That's not going to happen and I think you know it

[Gene Debs]

16. He knows it in the same way you know Clinton's judgment is never terrible.

[sakabatou]

2. The neverending war continues

[avaistheone1]

4. Enough of this garbage.

I will not be voting for perpetual war PERIOD.

[840high]

9. .+1

[billhicks76]

11. Clinton Better Try Something Else

How could anyone be just tied with Trump. As of today that's the polls. She needs to try something, do something... It's July..,Trump should be toast by now. Where are sharpened knives? What the heck is going on?

[bemildred]

12. That is certainly an interesting interpretation of its meaning ...

But it makes no sense at all.

[Javaman]

13. wow, just wow...

we have learned nothing and continue with our ignorance.

[transatlantica]

14. this doesn't bode well for world peace

[geek tragedy]

17. candidate takes bold stand against retreat, defeat and terrorists nt

[hollowdweller]

18. I think that's a fairly generic statement

We know Clinton is a hawk but I'm not sure I'd read that as an endorsement of sending more US troops in.

I'd see it more as a political statement designed to blunt any over the top rhetoric Trump might throw here way.

We don't really know how Clinton will proceed foreign policy wise. Past history would seem to suggest she favors more US involvement than Obama, but on the other hand I think as SOS maybe she sees the limits of US power and won't be so quick to reach for the gun so to speak.

[Gene Debs]

19. The one thing I disagree with in your assessment is the last statement. If there's one glaring

fault Clinton has—or maybe i should say her biggest one—is that she has shown repeatedly that she doesn't learn from her mistakes.

[hollowdweller]

21. I don't know about that

She sure moved to the left when Sanders started gaining on her and I don't thing she'd be palling around with Elizabeth Warren if she hadn't realized which way the wind blows.....

[yurbud]

23. at best Hillary will be an LBJ

Progressive on domestic policy and militarily aggressive on foreign policy.

More likely she will be about as good as Obama on domestic policy and more hawkish on foreign policy

[Gene Debs]

24. She didn't move to the left. Not an inch. Her rhetoric moved to the left. All that new-found

progressive-left stuff she started saying during the primaries? She didn't mean a damn word of it. She'll snap back to the right again before they've even swept up the confetti from the convention floor. I GUARANTEE it. That's who she is.

[LiberalLovinLug]

20. Because...you know... its worked so well in the past

[yurbud]

22. great sound bite for Fox News crowd but not at all honest about what's going on