By Stan Levin
Graphic by enron.
Yesterday, August 31, speaking to an audience at The American Legion convention taking place in Cincinnati, Hillary Clinton offered remarks about “American exceptionalism,” a statement she often uses, and one to which I am compelled to take exception.
A moment later, and what I found particularly disturbing, she explained her meaning of the term: “It means that we recognize America’s unique and unparalleled ability to be a force for peace and progress”.
Well. Madam Secretary, we have been witness to fifteen years of unparalleled force, demonstrated daily with no let-up by our exceptional military might, and rather than peace forthcoming, what we have to show for our noble efforts and expense is worldwide death and destruction, and a growing, threatening population of enemies.
Maybe a few more such years will provide peace. That should work.
Stan Levin is a Korean War veteran and active member of San Diego chapter Veterans for Peace. He has been married for sixty-four years and will be eighty-seven years old next week.
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At this point Hillary Clinton is definitely old school. Her politics are the politics of the establishment. But she’s the only thing we’ve got as an alternative to Donald Trump.
From the perspective of US foreign policy & endless war, it makes little difference if either of the two “main stream” candidates are selected as president. We will still engage in domination & military might to enforce American Exceptionalism (apparently our exceptionalism doesn’t stand on its own but requires the but of a gun).
This insistence on 2-party as the only option continues to mire the liberal/progressive movement in the mud. the lesser of two evils is still bad. the fear-mongering of both parties is why voters opt for NPP. Primaries are not democratic yet become the race for the finish…leaving real democracy in the dust.
Vote your conscience, not your main stream media stream of noise.
In this case, voting my “conscience” IS voting for the lesser of two evils. Sucks that unfortunately that’s the way works sometime. Ok maybe too many times.
Sorry Anne, but Donald Trump and foreign policy is a very dangerous combination. He is volatile, unstable and worse, he is blatantly racist. He can NOT be trusted with the nuclear codes. His business interests as well as his substantial debts would heavily influence his foreign policy. He would govern in HIS OWN best interests, not those of the nation. He cannot release his tax returns because they would demonstrate a serious conflict of interest if he were our head of state. He lies about being against the Iraq War. He was for it before he was against it (when it became politically expedient). He totally insulted Mexico’s President by conducting the photo op joint appearance (which was totally phony) and coming back to Phoenix and spewing more of his xenophobic hatred of Mexico. He LIED about the content of their meeting. It is dangerous to continue pedaling this ludicrous lie that there is no difference between Clinton and Trump, on foreign policy or ANYTHING else! With Trump we face world peril.
AKA chauvinism, rhymes with patriotism, jingoism & nihilism.