Yesterday Hillary defended her threat to totally obliterate Iran. Obama, god bless him, described this as GWB-style "saber-rattling." It’s all political. As Hillary’s biographer Sally Bedell Smith said on C-Span the other day–and wrote last year:
in 1993 she talked her husband out of getting involved in the war in
Bosnia because she thought it would be like Vietnam and would harm the
chances for her health care plan. Two years later, after being secretly
tutored by a State Department official, she became an advocate for the
use of force in Bosnia because she feared Bill’s inaction was harming
him politically.
On TV, Smith said the State Department tutor was Richard Holbrooke. And Smith suggested that Hillary was also against Rwanda intervention. I see Michael Crowley of TNR has picked up on the same issue.
