Saturday morning langue de bois.
A little love-bomb for O, too, to make up for the back stabbing of a week or so ago.
In an America made fearful by the screams of politicians of the war party and their media megaphones, Hillary, a leader of that same party, steps boldly on stage and cries, "Wait! I know what to do! I can make you safe!"
Hillary Clinton reviews Henry Kissinger’s ‘World Order’
A disciple of Pat Buchanan?
Justin Raimondo?
Or even the Pauls, father and son?
No, Teddy Roosevelt or William McKinley, more like.
Rehearsing the fundamental myth of contemporary American globalismo - its fundamental lies - and sounding like a McCain clone, she praises America for saving the world repeatedly in all the major conflicts of the 20th Century, always and everywhere - well, almost - standing four square for democracy and what Kissinger calls "liberal economics," by which he and she mean capitalism.
Virgil sings praises for Rome's empire with notes no more false and lyrics no more effusive.
We are so far from a policy aimed at America's safety or in any sense at America's good that you could starve walking from here to there.
She explains the goal of American policy; her goal for us, our taxes, our military.
[O]ur continued commitment to renovating and defending the global order will determine whether we build a future of peace, progress and prosperity in which people everywhere have the opportunity to live up to their God-given potential.
Who told her we wanted to do that?
No one.
Who told her if our classe politique insisted the rest of America would follow?
No one.
No worries, though.
The lesson of Vietnam for her and her like was plain and simple.
American rulers can do pretty much anything they want in foreign parts so long as they do it without a draft and don't too much disturb the ordinary lives of the people.
And, anyway, she didn't write this for us, the ordinary people of the country.
She wrote it to re-assure key constituencies and, especially, the military-industrial complex at the heart of it all.
Rand Paul will be the only anti-globalist in this election contest.
Serious challengers to Hillary, if any, among the Democrats will not rattle their self-righteous sabers any less than she.
Interesting when she puts third in her list of current crises the Ebola outbreak that Romney said not a word about.
If that's a woman's touch it's all to the good.
It could easily be the most urgent crisis going on right now.
Where was Hillary on war and peace during the Vietnam years when she and I grew up?
I suppose I should know but I just don't recall.
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