And now with her husband as a key fundraiser, campaign strategist and arguably her closest political confidant, the prospect that once she is ensconced in the White House, 'Bubba' Clinton will almost certainly reign behind the throne as her indispensible consigliore is something of a lay down misere. In fact, we can't rule out his appointment as a key player in the next administration. In this case, the die one imagines is already cast -- America's future preordained.
With the aptly designated "War Party" -- the cabal of neoconservatives and liberal interventionists who are both the authors and flag-bearers of that hegemonic ambition -- now more entrenched than it was in Bill's heyday then, there can only be one outcome from a Hillary Clinton presidency. Put simply, unlike her putative Republican rival Donald Trump, we might comfortably predict Mrs Clinton's form as president will likely to be more of the same, and then some!
In an interview with Joan Brunwasser on OpEd News, Johnstone explained there were two things [that] inspired her to write Queen of Chaos; these are instructive to the narrative herein. The first reason was the Libyan intervention and accompanying regime change gambit. After describing the war that eventually destroyed Libya as "totally unjustified" -- a regular refrain in the decades-long history of America's war for the Greater Middle East -- the author declared that most people are "totally unaware [of] how much falsification was used to justify that war". It was Clinton as Secretary of State she says, who cajoled President Obama into that war and is "quite ready to use it as model for further regime change in countries whose leaders she doesn't like".
Clinton's sniggering, exaggerated exultation -- "we came, we saw, he died" -- upon hearing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's grisly demise at the hands of mostly Western backed anti-government rebels was clear evidence of this. Her close pal (and aspiring presidential whisperer) Henry Kissinger -- himself a past master of malevolent mayhem -- doubtless would've been impressed with the way the Libyan debacle unfolded, although one imagines Hank may have had the 'decorum' to gloat on the inside, if only for appearances' sake.
As for her second reason, the author points out it was,
'...the totally disproportionate hostility aroused against Vladimir Putin and Russia as a result of the Ukrainian crisis, itself incited largely by Washington and the European Union. That hostility was already brewing, and Hillary has kept it stirring. These events are part of a trend toward a much greater war than people today think possible.'
And if that wasn't enough to underscore her fealty to the "War Party" and broader implications of a Clinton presidency, in a recent piece on Counterpunch, Johnstone declared that she had hoped the occasion of the campaign might be seized upon not only to "expose the lies of Hillary Clinton", but, [also to]
'...seek freedom from America's seven decades of subjugation to the military-industrial complex and its organic intellectuals who never cease conjuring up threats and enemies to justify the war economy. This entire policy needs to be exposed, denounced and rejected.'
Hillary the Regressive Progressive
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