Luke Ford

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* This is criminal insanity. America’s (and Europe’s) foreign policy should consist of three words: leave well alone. Intervention in the Muslim world has been a disaster. Of course, saying it was a disaster implies that the consequences weren’t foreseen, and that was by no means the case. Talk of “rooting out terrorists” in foreign countries is nonsense. Muslims are 22 per cent of the world’s population. By the tenets of their religion, they are by definition hostile to us. The only way to protect ourselves is to keep them out of our countries. A “good” Muslim country, from our point of view, is one that’s reasonably stable and not in danger erupting into anarchy and spewing its young male population on us.

* A partial list of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s more dramatic failures:

(1) Failed DC bar exam;

(2) Expelled from Watergate investigation staff for lying and other unethical behavior;

(3) A series of financial scandals as Arkansas’s first “lady”;

(4) Whitewater coverup;

(5) In charge of crafting Clinton health insurance bill, failed in a disastrous way that put off the possibilities of another Democrat bill for twenty years;

(6) Partnered with Bill in admitting Poland to NATO, starting a new round of unnecessary hostilities with Russia. [George Kennon describes this as one of the greatest diplomatic blunders of the 20th century.];

(7) Was losing NY senate election until Bill stepped in;

(8) Lost a “sure thing” presidential presidential nomination to the relatively unknown Obama;

(9) Within two weeks of becoming Secretary of State committed an epic diplomatic faux pas that caused Whitehall to publicly and officially repudiate the century long “special relation” between the UK and the USA;

(10) A bit later her incredibly stupid “reset button” gimmick publicly embarrassed Russian officials and widened the rift the Clintons had so assiduously created;

(11) Fomenting and aiding and abewtting the so-called “Arab Spring” which has permanently destabilized much of North Africa;

(12) Fomenting the overthrow of Qadafi in Libya which has turned that country into a failed anarchic mess and a haven for Islamo-fascist terrorists and helped spread terrorist movements like Boko Haram into much of central Africa;

(13) Failed utterly to protect US diplomats in Benghazi and lied through her teeth about the causes of that disaster and the role she played in it;

(14) While Secretary she violated an oath she took after being trained in how to handle classified materials, violated directly several section of the USC regarding the handling of such materials, and as a result exposed many US humint and elint intelligence sources [people may have died as a result] Hillary’s apologists claim that she was unaware but anyone who will be handling materials like these is thoroughly briefed beforehand and signs oaths to obey the briefings. Only someone totally unsuited for any public office would fail to behave appropriately;

(15) While Secretary her office and underlings negotiated deals with individuals and groups from which Clinton or her “foundation” had received emoluments, giving at least the appearance of pay-to-play and once again violating provisions of the USC.

(16) And her marriage to Bill would probably be judged a failure by most normal people who value marriage as something other than a mutual support pact between two sociopaths.

* Libya was actually the beginning of my red-pill journey. As a 19-year-old supporter of the Iraq war who learned his lesson, I honestly couldn’t believe it (literally) when NRO and other (((neocon))) types started calling for a no-fly zone and even further action. The results are as sad and terrible as they were predicable. In any sane country this would be grounds for immediate, shameful resignation by the SoD and SoS. Unfortunately we live in the terminal end of a decadent, dying democracy. Fail up.

Just another nail in our coffin.

* I think Trump will start in on her vast experience right from the beginning:

Her Marxist-Leninist senior thesis at Wellesley.

Bag lady for unreported Democratic Party cash in Arkansas.

Master commodities speculator who turned $1,000 into $100,000 in a single cattle trade.

Union busting strategist for Walmart as a Rose Law firm consultant.

Legal architect of the Whitewater land deal.

* My blood was boiling when I read the original article a month back. She was talking about Libya like it was a high school project that went bad. Never mind that a few thousand people are dead, at least she got to use Caesar’s “Veni, Vidi, Vici” line.

* If we and Muslims are to coexist on the same planet, one of us must fear the other a great deal.

And I prefer being the hammer to being the nail.

That said, intervening in their affairs internally or attempting to improve, correct, educate, or change them is neither desirable nor necessary. Leave them alone unless and until they do something to us that necessitates a response, then make it more than they bargained for.

* In addition to the items ably complied here by Jus’ Sayin’, there is

5.5) Aided and abetted Bill in his sexual abuse and harassment of women, all while loudly pretending with a straight face to be a woman’s champion.

7.1) Her figure as a politician came almost entirely without winning any actual elections. Her only election wins were as the US Senator from NY (where she doesn’t really live anyway), the first election of which she only won only by a few percentage points after her initial marquee opponent (Guliani) dropped out due to marital problems and cancer and the Repubs had to scramble to put a placeholder no-name opponent into the race. The second she won more easily (albeit again against a no-name opponent), but Senatorial re-election rates are approximately the same as for re-election to the Soviet politburo.

13.1) The Benghazi failure/betrayal/cover-up was all the more galling in light of her 2008 campaign ad touting how she would be the experienced and wise one to respond to the national emergency 3AM phone call to the White House. Well, in 2012 that phone call came from Benghazi, and Hillary promptly stabbed the Americans in the back.

Also, she managed to compile this massive record of failure while having the uncritical backing of big media four-square behind her, so contrary to her whiny complaint of being a victim of (fictitious) “the vast right-wing conspiracy”, she was in fact a beneficiary of the actual vast left-wing conspiracy and still manages to work her anti-Midas magic on everything she touches.

Whenever I meet a Hillary supporter (not very often, few citizens want to identify themselves this way), I ask why? What are her accomplishments? An awkward silence always follows.

Hillary is a failure as a person, a politician and a “public” “official”. She may be the person in the US least fit for office. That she is the largest party’s front runner says a lot about the party and the nation.

* A similar occurrence happened during the 1999 Kosovo intervention (aka bombing the Serbs) which Hillary supposedly pressed Bill on. We were told of a hundred thousand missing Kosovars and Serbs using Albanians as ‘living blood banks’. Yet after the action Kosovo became the drug and human trafficking capital of Europe and Kosovo ethnically cleansed most non-Albanians while brutally attacking the remaining Serbs. Libya wasn’t the first nation Hillary helped to wreck.

To paraphrase a line from Clint Eastwood’s The Eiger Sanction, “I don’t consider a record of failure automatically grants you the right to lead.”

* I pray that Trump will get the chance to run against this monster and expose all of the horrors starting with the bombing of Serbia up to and including the enthusiastic support for frau Merkel’s flooding of Europe with jihadists, and opening the southern border of the U.S., the aggressive encirclement of Russia risking WWIII etc etc. I would dearly love to see how the White electorate responds given a real referendum on these issues.

* I bought [Samantha] Power’s R2P book anticipating a muscular political and philosophical work through of arguments for intervention, with strong examples designed to deflate objections and to show how it was possible finesse the problems of messy reality.

But no. Just a list of woes of the world and the necessity to do-something-about-it.

Ghastly, pompous nobody.

* There’s this, her position in favor of getting rid of Assad, her recent statement that anyone on our southern border who gets one foot onto American soil will never be deported, to say nothing of a long history in support of free trade, and pundits maintain Trump will never beat her in November. Ha!