In her accompanying floor statement, she claimed it was to ensure President George W. Iraq: In 2002, as a senator for New York, Clinton voted for the authorization for the use of military force in Iraq. troop invasion was avoided after Jimmy Carter brokered a last-minute agreement with Raoul Cédras that assured he would step down from power. Southern Command and Joint Chiefs were poorly conceived and often logistically impossible to carry out. Reacting against the pressure, the lack of options, and his sense of being trapped, she said he was badly served by his foreign policy staff.” This was an astute judgment by the then-first lady, as the options developed by the U.S. He said the pell-mell rush to invade was crazy to her. As historian Taylor Branch recounted in his diary of interviews with Bill Clinton: “I asked him what Hillary thought.
Haiti: In 1994, Clinton opposed intervening in Haiti to reinstate the Jean-Bertrand Aristide government. Though she has opposed uses of force that she believed were a bad idea, she has consistently endorsed starting new wars and expanding others.Ĭonsider seven prominent situations in which she has had to decide whether to support the use of American military force:
By any reasonable measure, Clinton qualifies as a hawk, if a nuanced one. Unlike Donald Trump, who has wildly shifting positions and alleged “secret” plans to defeat the Islamic State, Clinton has an extensive track record upon which one can evaluate her likely positions. Today, combat troop deployments are routinely made by executive branch spokespeople, decisions to back open-ended air wars in places like Yemen by “partners” like Saudi Arabia are announced via press release, and congressional oversight hearings largely boil down to legislators pleading with commanders to ask for more troops and looser rules of engagement.Īnd much of this probably suits Hillary Clinton just fine. 8 will be a war president on day one, with the power and autonomy to undertake destabilizing shows of force, drone strikes, special operations raids and ever-deepening military interventions.
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