Hillary Clinton in Shortest Way Home, by Pete Buttigieg

On War & Peace: OpEd: supported Iraq War to avoid looking unpatriotic

Soon president [Buh in 2002] was telling us that "either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists," a dictum impossible for America to uphold or enforce in the case of Pakistan and many other states playing the three-dimensional chess game of geopolitics in the Islamic world. Next it was an "Axis of Evil," and so on. For the home front, the message was that we would be kept safe through the deployment of force and the acceptance of some encroachments on our freedom and privacy. And also, for some reason, we would need to invade Iraq.

Democrats, unsure of themselves, were afraid to sound like an opposition at all, and many carefully avoided opposing the Iraq War for fear of looking unpatriotic. (Some, particularity Hillary Clinton, would come to regret this posturing.) Instead they tried to change the subject, emphasizing Social Security and Medicare, even though global security was the dominant issue of our moment--even in Indiana.

Source: Shortest Way Home, by Pete Buttigieg, p. 50 Feb 12, 2019

The above quotations are from Shortest Way Home One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future by Pete Buttigieg. Click here for other excerpts from Shortest Way Home One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future by Pete Buttigieg. Click here for other excerpts by Hillary Clinton. Click here for a profile of Hillary Clinton.
Please consider a donation to OnTheIssues.org! Click for details -- or send donations to: 1770 Mass Ave. #630, Cambridge MA 02140 E-mail: submit@OnTheIssues.org (We rely on your support!)

Page last updated: May 21, 2019