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Hillary the Hawk
In a speech she'll deliver this morning in New
York, Hillary Clinton will describe her strategy to combat ISIS. And you
can expect a hawkish-sounding address, especially compared with
President Obama's rhetoric. A Clinton campaign aide previews the speech,
saying the Democratic candidate will call for 1) defeating ISIS in
Syria, Iraq and across the region; 2) disrupting ISIS's network; and 3)
beefing up defense/security capabilities in American and across the
world. Now while those three areas aren't necessarily different than
what Obama has said in the past, we can pretty much guarantee that
she'll say it with sharper-edged rhetoric. After all, foreign affairs
and national security is the one area where she can move to President
Obama's right. The question we have is if Bernie Sanders has the
credibility to exploit it. Remember, while Barack Obama was to Hillary
Clinton's left on Iraq in 2007-2008, he actually was tougher than she
was when it came to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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