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In reply to the discussion: Why Hagel over someone like General Wes Clark [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)doing it we trust them. At that time I assumed that we were protecting people who were being ethnically cleansed and admit that because Clinton was president did not question it at all.
I also did not know it was part of the insane PNAC plan and had never heard of them at that time.
Since then many of us have learned a lot about our government functions, especially when it comes to Foreign Policy and are less inclined to give a pass to our own 'team'.
This country needs a sea change in our Foreign Policy but that is not likely unless the people demand it in huge numbers and begin by not falling for the fear tactics. We are a long from that, but a little further along than we were when Clinton was president. Democrats especially are no longer to ignore warmongering on the Left any more than they will on the Right. So it's a start.