Hillary’s War Doctrine

Despite all of the partisanship swirling around the Benghazi congressional hearings. Politicians are politicians, after all. The overarching theme to be learned by honest observers on the left or the right, is that Hillary Clinton learned nothing from Iraq.

This became all too clear, yesterday, during an exchange on Libya with former Sec. Clinton. Remember, regime change was expressly NOT the mission of the Libya intervention back in March 2011. Here are the words of President Barack Obama at the time:

The task that I assigned our forces [is] to protect the Libyan people from immediate danger, and to establish a no-fly zone,” adding, “Broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton spilled the beans.

Asked by Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) about a video clip in which Hillary exclaimed while laughing, “We came, we saw, he died [meaning Libyan President Muammar al-Gaddafi]. Is that the Clinton doctrine?” Clinton replied, “No, that was an expression of relief that the military mission undertaken by NATO and our other partners had achieved its end.”

And what an end!

As James Antle of the Washington Examiner pointed out, “There is a candidate in the 2016 race for the White House who launched a preventive war of choice against a regime without weapons of mass destruction, without congressional approval, which ended up triggering (massive) sectarian violence.”

I’d like to thank both Empty Wheel and Micah Zenko for bringing this information to light