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AntiFascist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-16-07 02:57 PM
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81. Does Hillary really want to take our troops out of harm's way??
Not if she pays any attention to her husband's hawkish (DLC) thinktank:

http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=124&subsecID=307&contentID=254077

From as recently as October, 2006,


<snip>

America needs a bigger and better military.

<snip>

A stronger military is essential, but it should serve -- not substitute for -- a practical strategy for defeating jihadism.

<snip>

a political strategy that uses all of our might -- economic, cultural, diplomatic, as well as military -- to strengthen the forces of moderation and modernization in the Muslim world.

<snip>

America needs more allies in the fight. You don't have to read Machiavelli to know that safety lies in uniting your friends and dividing your enemies.

<snip>

Rejecting both Republican United Nations-bashing and the toothless multilateralism favored on the left,

<and on and on>
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