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To Be or Not To Be (Unilateral), That’s Hillary’s Question
The joy of watching the Democrats in action comes from the fact that they are consistently inconsistent. They say one thing in an attempt to win favor with middle America, yet their actions show them to be as left-wing as ever. Now, Hillary Clinton is blasting President Bush for working with other nations in dealing with Iran. However, when it came to Iraq, Clinton and other Democrats criticized President Bush for allegedly “going it alone.”
Despite the fact that rangling between the U.N. and Iraq had been going on for more than a decade regarding Iraq’s compliance with U.N. sanctions, the Democrats hammered the president relentlessly for his supposed unilateral approach to Saddam Hussein’s regime. America and other nations saw Iraq 1) as a threat to export their weapons and weapons technology to groups such as al Qaeda and 2) in clear violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
The president worked with other nations to hold Iraq to account. The U.N. Security Council passed resolution 1441 demanding Iraq to account for all WMDs. Only after all negotiations failed did the U.S., along with a multi-national coalition, go into Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein from power. But for the Democrats, the U.S. (in the person of President Bush) was the lone wolf. We were going it alone and did not have the “national community” on our side.
Now, we fast forward to the present and the growing threat that Iran poses not only to the region but to the entire world. Iran is bent on developing nuclear weapons. Their hatred for America is well-known, but their immediate target is Israel. The president is working through the U.N. and the EU-3 (a negotiating coalition of France, Germany, and Great Britain) to see that Iran does not become a nuclear weapons power.
Yet, now the Democrats are complaining that President Bush in not engaged in the situation — that the U.S. should be forcing Iran to comply. In a speech this week at Princeton University, Hillary Clinton blasted the president on the situation in Iraq. According to the report Senate Democrat Will Introduce Resolution on Iran, Clinton said, “I believe that we lost critical time in dealing with Iran because the White House chose to downplay the threats and to outsource the negotiations.”
Outsource the negotiations? Question to Sen. Clinton, “Should we be bringing other nations to the table or not?”
The Democrats are now poised to put forward a resolution restricting certain dealings with Iran as part of their “get tough” strategy. However, the Democrats have proven over and over again that when it comes to national security and world affairs, it is they who are more apt to “outsource” leadership to the U.N. or nations like France.
Consistently inconsistent. I guess being unilateral is OK when it’s Hillary Clinton and the Democrats doing the talking.
The joy of watching the Democrats in action comes from the fact that they are consistently inconsistent. They say one thing in an attempt to win favor with middle America, yet their actions show them to be as left-wing as ever. Now, Hillary Clinton is blasting President Bush for working with other nations in dealing with Iran. However, when it came to Iraq, Clinton and other Democrats criticized President Bush for allegedly “going it alone.”
Despite the fact that rangling between the U.N. and Iraq had been going on for more than a decade regarding Iraq’s compliance with U.N. sanctions, the Democrats hammered the president relentlessly for his supposed unilateral approach to Saddam Hussein’s regime. America and other nations saw Iraq 1) as a threat to export their weapons and weapons technology to groups such as al Qaeda and 2) in clear violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
The president worked with other nations to hold Iraq to account. The U.N. Security Council passed resolution 1441 demanding Iraq to account for all WMDs. Only after all negotiations failed did the U.S., along with a multi-national coalition, go into Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein from power. But for the Democrats, the U.S. (in the person of President Bush) was the lone wolf. We were going it alone and did not have the “national community” on our side.
Now, we fast forward to the present and the growing threat that Iran poses not only to the region but to the entire world. Iran is bent on developing nuclear weapons. Their hatred for America is well-known, but their immediate target is Israel. The president is working through the U.N. and the EU-3 (a negotiating coalition of France, Germany, and Great Britain) to see that Iran does not become a nuclear weapons power.
Yet, now the Democrats are complaining that President Bush in not engaged in the situation — that the U.S. should be forcing Iran to comply. In a speech this week at Princeton University, Hillary Clinton blasted the president on the situation in Iraq. According to the report Senate Democrat Will Introduce Resolution on Iran, Clinton said, “I believe that we lost critical time in dealing with Iran because the White House chose to downplay the threats and to outsource the negotiations.”
Outsource the negotiations? Question to Sen. Clinton, “Should we be bringing other nations to the table or not?”
The Democrats are now poised to put forward a resolution restricting certain dealings with Iran as part of their “get tough” strategy. However, the Democrats have proven over and over again that when it comes to national security and world affairs, it is they who are more apt to “outsource” leadership to the U.N. or nations like France.
Consistently inconsistent. I guess being unilateral is OK when it’s Hillary Clinton and the Democrats doing the talking.
