2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton, Stalwart Friend of World's Worst Despots....
....Attacks Sanders' Latin American Activism.
https://theintercept.com/2016/03/10/hillary-clinton-stalwart-friend-of-worlds-worst-despots-attacks-sanders-latin-american-activism/?comments=1#comments
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At Wednesday nights Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton attacked Bernie Sanders for praising Fidel Castro in the 1980s, as well as for standing with Central American governments and rebel groups targeted by Ronald Reagans brutal covert wars. You know, said the former secretary of state, if the values are that you oppress people, you disappear people, imprison people or even kill people for expressing their opinions, for expressing freedom of speech, that is not the kind of revolution of values that I ever want to see anywhere.
To defend her remarks, Clintons faithful Good Democratic supporters began instantly spouting rhetoric that sounded like a right-wing, red-baiting Cold War cartoon.
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Vehement opposition to Reagans covert wars in Central America, as well as to the sadistic and senseless embargo of Cuba, were once standard liberal positions. As my colleague Jeremy Scahill, observing the reaction of Clinton supporters during the debate, put it in a series of tweets: The U.S. sponsored deaths squads that massacred countless central and Latin Americans, murdered nuns and priests, assassinated an Archbishop. I bet commie Sanders was even against Reagans humanitarian mining of Nicaraguan waters & supported subsequent war crimes judgment vs. U.S. Have any of these Hillarybots heard of the Contra death squads? Or is it just that whatever Hillary says must be defended at all costs? The Hillarybots attacking Sanders over Nicaragua should be ashamed of themselves.
Lets pretend for the sake of argument that the horror expressed by Clinton and her supporters over Sanders 1980s positions on Latin America was all driven by some sort of authentic outrage over praising tyrants and human rights abusers rather than a cynical, craven tactic to undermine Sanders using long-standing right-wing, red-baiting smears. Is Hillary Clinton a credible voice for condemning support for despots and human rights abusers? To answer that, lets review much more recent evidence than the 1980s:
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts):-O
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)John Poet
(2,510 posts)her actions as SOS in Central America and elsewhere--
They can make no defense or excuse, so they prefer that these threads sink off the first page just as soon as possible. It almost seems organized.
Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)Thanks for the thread, grasswire.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)John Poet
(2,510 posts)of Honduras in 2009, encouraged to do so by right-wing Republican senators.
This is consistent with her apparent approval of Reagan policies in Central America--
policies I spent a considerable amount of time protesting against, in my youth.
Just when I think I can't get even more disgusted with Hillary,
she opens her mouth in this debate...
Avoiding the press is probably a good strategy for her.