Transcript of Clinton's talk at Brookings

[HassleCat]

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Here is a link to the transcript of Hillary Clinton's address to the Brookings Institution. I need more time to read it carefully, but it looks pretty hawkish, maybe even neocon chickenhawkish.

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/events/2015/09/09-clinton-iran/20150909_clinton_iran_transcript.pdf

Edit: It's not full of chickenhawk stuff. Clinton is trying to adopt a posture that's very supportive of Israel and not offensive to the other countries in the region. There is a lot of talk about what a bad, bad boy Iran has been, and will continue to be, but Clinton doesn't threaten to blow them off the map or anything like that. The overall tone of the speech leans toward a sort of cold war containment strategy, positioning US military assets to protect our interests, etc. But there are no "If they do this, we will bomb them" type threats. It's not a neocon position, more of a cold war approach favored by both parties for so many years.

[gateley]

1. I don't even need to click on it to know it's probably hawkish.

That's who Hillary is -- no surprise.

But, as with whomever gets the nomination, she'll have my vote if she's the 'D'.

No matter how hawkish she is, I'm sure the 'R' will be more so.