{"id":181933,"date":"2016-02-06T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/06\/a-thought-on-the-democratic-debates\/"},"modified":"2016-02-06T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T02:54:00","slug":"a-thought-on-the-democratic-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/06\/a-thought-on-the-democratic-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thought on the Democratic Debates\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t catch them all, I had to shuttle the Sharon<sup>*<\/sup> and Charlie to rehearsal, but I caught a lot of it.<\/p>\n<p>In the foreign policy portion, Clinton spent a lot of time touting her foreign policy bona fides.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders went back to her history, specifically her vote in favor of the Iraq war.<\/p>\n<p>What he did not discuss, and he should have brought up, was her bloodthirsty blunder on Libya, where she was later (in)famously quoted as saying of Qaddafi, &#8220;We came, we saw, he died.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the overthrow of that government, we now have a country where Libyans are fleeing the country in droves, its educational and healthcare systems demolished, its economy a mess, ongoing genocide against black Africans, and the rise of ISIS\/ISIL\/Daesh\/Whatever in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the overthrow of Qadaffi led directly to the death of ambassador Christopher Stephens in Benghazi.<\/p>\n<p>And yet she continues to brag about overthrowing Libya.<\/p>\n<p>This is not an indication of foreign policy prowess, this is an indication of thoughtlessness and incompetence.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Love of my life, light of the&nbsp; cosmos, <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\">she&nbsp; who must be obeyed<\/span>, my wife.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t catch them all, I had to shuttle the Sharon* and Charlie to rehearsal, but I caught a lot of it. In the foreign policy portion, Clinton spent a lot of time touting her foreign policy bona fides. Sanders went back to her history, specifically her vote in favor of the Iraq war. What &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107,964,965,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bernie-sanders","category-foreign-relations","category-hillary-clinton","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}