As Hillary
Clinton puts together what she hopes will be a winning coalition in
November, many progressives remain wary — but she has the war-hawks
firmly behind her.
“I
would say all Republican foreign policy professionals are
anti-Trump,” leading neoconservative Robert Kagan told a group
gathered around him, groupie-style, at a “foreign policy
professionals for Hillary” fundraiser I attended last week. “I
would say that a majority of people in my circle will vote for
Hillary.”
As the
co-founder of the neoconservative think tank Project for the New
American Century, Kagan played a leading role in pushing for
America’s unilateral invasion of Iraq, and insisted for years
afterwards that it had turned out great.
Despite the
catastrophic effects of that war, Kagan insisted at last week’s
fundraiser that U.S. foreign policy over the last 25 years has been
“an extraordinary success.”
Republican
presidential nominee Donald Trump’s know-nothing isolationism has
led many neocons to flee the Republican ticket. And some, like Kagan,
are actively helping Clinton, whose hawkishness in many ways
resembles their own.
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Perhaps Bernie wants to make sure
that Hillary will stay to the left. He may become an extra pair of
strict political eyes on her. Hillary would find even more
difficult to escape and follow the neocon/neoliberal agenda,
especially when she knows that millions of Americans who are got
sick of the establishment will be watching her closely.
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There
is no doubt of course that Hillary will abandon immediately any
pro-people policies once (if) she get elected, and follow
faithfully the neocon/neoliberal agenda. Obama has an additional
reason to turn 180 degrees to appear that he fully supports a
stronger social security. Now that his term is ending, he simply
wants to leave a good name behind.
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