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In reply to the discussion: Willful Ignorance on Hillary Clinton and Democratic Party Foreign Policy [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)7. I asked you before in another set of threads when you pulled out 'liberal internationalism'...
but got no answer that I could see, maybe you missed it. Since you define it with
Liberal internationalism is a foreign policy doctrine that argues liberal states should intervene in other sovereign states in order to pursue liberal objectives
(my bold)
What are the 'liberal objectives' involved in most of America's interventions over the last decade and a half? I understood what they were in Libya and the Yazidi interventions, and supported both of those myself at the time. I then asked what the 'liberal objectives' related to things like wiretapping Angela Merkel, killing US citizens without due process, various other drone killings in places like Yemen and Pakistan, and the other various continued or expanded upon Bush policies might be.
Since you still didn't address them above, I'll ask again down here.
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Willful Ignorance on Hillary Clinton and Democratic Party Foreign Policy [View all]
wyldwolf
Aug 2014
OP
You obviously took the time to make a thoughtful, well-written and researched OP.
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2014
#4
At the time this vote occurred she was Senator from NY, over 3000 died in the WTC.
Thinkingabout
Aug 2014
#18
I never said Hillary was the decider, more than half of the Democrats from NY voted
Thinkingabout
Aug 2014
#21
I asked you before in another set of threads when you pulled out 'liberal internationalism'...
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Aug 2014
#7
#1. I didn't ask you. #2. It isn't my definition. Reading is fundamental, Manny. Try to keep up.
wyldwolf
Aug 2014
#17
Not only skeptical but impatient. Interventionism is just plain taking too long
eridani
Aug 2014
#41
Apart from Rick Perry, has anyone said US ground troops should go in?
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2014
#39
Sure FDR, Truman and Kennedy may have believed in liberal internationalism but that
pampango
Aug 2014
#40
The ideology behind the Vietnam War and the Iraq War might not be one worth keeping.
Chathamization
Aug 2014
#42