Prometheus 6

Hillary and Foreign Policy

Today the Clinton and Obama campaigns exchanged long and testy memos arguing about whether Hillary played any substantive foreign policy role in her husband's administration. The memos touch on Northern Ireland, Rwanda, China, and the flow of refugees from Kosovo. (Obama: She did nothing. Clinton: Yes I did!) But neither side mentions something more interesting and relevant than all those subjects: Her advocacy during the 1990s for the use of force abroad....

Amid all this recent "red-phone" talk, the Clinton campaign has shown precious little interest in resurrecting these episodes. I guess that noting's Hillary past views on the use of force--and in the case of Kosovo, her possibly decisive support for bombing--is outweighed by the awkwardness in the post-Iraq era of talking about such matters