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Two foreign policy advisers to the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaigns, respectively, went after one another on CNN pretty furiously over the weekend. They clashed most over Clinton's threatening-seeming comments about Iran, a subject I've written about here. But I came no closer to understanding what Clinton thinks, and ended up confused about what Obama thinks, too. Read for yourself; see if you can figure it out.
I'm not alone, it turns out, in this confusion. Today, one of the more popular liberal blogs, MyDD, took note of how close Clinton and Obama are in their actual policy toward Iran, in as far as it's discernible. The difference is one of rhetoric, more than anything, I gather. Obama doesn't want to use some of the harsh language Clinton has used, but both have left open using any option whatsoever should Iran attack Israel.
At least the two foreign policy advisers delved into another mystery from earlier in the week, which is whether any candidate besides John McCain had anything to say about the Syria/North Korea news. Both unconditionally accept the intelligence on Syria, which is an interesting turnabout. U.S. intelligence has come under serious scrutiny because of the lack of WMDs in Iraq and the fear that the intelligence was politicized, but on the same CNN program, the only one questioning the Syria intelligence was a Republican congressman. (He didn't question the intelligence itself, but the motive in going public with it.) |
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