We might argue that given the weight of mounting evidence against her fitness for high office -- a modicum of which would deep-six most politicians' career ambitions -- they have become ever more adept at keeping their political ducks flying in a row, and well out of the range of the shooters. Not that they've achieved this all on their own. In this the Clintons have been dutifully and ably served by the mainstream media (MSM) who've eschewed the forensic analysis -- whether political, policy, or personal -- vital to evaluating her fitness as the Democratic nominee (and therefore president), a point to which we will return.
The Mistress of Malevolent Mayhem
The prospect then of another Clinton presidency should make all right-thinking Americans increasingly concerned about the direction in which their country is heading, afraid. Very afraid! I know I am, and I'm not even American! Like many of America's key allies over the years, our country Australia is no different in that more and more Aussies are harbouring anxious -- one might say existential -- fears about the respective agendas of the U.S. neoconservative and neoliberal Establishment elites. And notwithstanding her blandly reassuring campaign rhetoric, Mrs Clinton hasn't just aligned herself with these agendas; it's increasingly clear she's the preferred standard bearer of those running them.
With this in mind, outside of her aforementioned Tammy Wynette moment, we should explore more of the aspiring president's resume. In her excellent book, aptly titled Queen of Chaos: The Misadventures of Hillary Clinton, Diana Johnstone does just this. The author chronicles in a clear-eyed manner her subject's history in excruciating detail. What makes Johnstone's tome all the more remarkable, credible, and essential reading is the depth and breadth of her narrative, one that goes way beyond the outwardly narrow focus suggested by the book's title.
For Johnstone, Clinton's "misadventures" aren't simply a reflection of the war mongering misadventures of the country she aspires to lead and whose virtues -- specious as they so often are regardless of which politician or public figure is voicing them -- she obsequiously and glibly extolls at every turn. In the author's studied analysis of the candidate, as if to ensure no stone is left unturned in the realization of her ambition, Mrs Clinton (aka "Mama Warbucks") goes further by embracing all of the vices that distinguish the prevailing Washington groupthink on foreign, national security and military policy. That she does so as promiscuously as her errant spouse pursued his own personal vices is an observation few would dispute.
Moreover, along with being attendant to that of Number 42's career, the backstory of Hillary's political ascendancy is inextricably woven into the larger narrative of America's preeminence as the "indispensable" empire du jour in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, itself coinciding more or less with Bill's election to the presidency in 1992. As Johnstone notes, in her youth, the then Hillary Rodham, a former Republican and a "Goldwater girl" no less,
'grew up with the viewpoint of a rich and dominant America obliged to maintain its position on top of an envious and resentful world. This was the standard attitude'.
It should be noted that it was her husband's foreign and national security policies that in so many ways facilitated the rise of the "full-spectrum dominance" mindset that prevails in Washington to this day. In fact Bill Clinton's track record as POTUS is a singular pointer to how a Hillary Clinton presidency will shape up on the critical economic and financial, as well as the geopolitical, and national security fronts. Though we may never know the full extent of Hillary's influence on her husband's foreign and national security policies during his tenure, we can safely assume it was never less than substantive. In this we might point to her well-documented encouragement of Bill to bomb Yugoslavia, as just one example.
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