Hillary Clinton is taking heat for saying America should “empathize” and show “respect” for its enemies.
The former secretary of State, who is considered a likely 2016
Democratic presidential candidate, made the remarks during a speech
Wednesday at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Touting an approach she calls “smart power,” Clinton urged America to use “every possible tool and partner” to advance peace.
This, she said, includes “leaving no one on the sidelines, showing
respect even for one’s enemies, trying to understand and insofar as
psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of
view.”
At a time when the U.S. military is launching airstrikes against the
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, some called the comments out of place.
Former Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, a Fox News host, said the comments are “irrational.”
“I can’t think of a presidential candidate who would have said those
kinds of things,” he said. “Think about December 7, 1941 and then FDR
going to the Congress of the United States the next day saying, ‘We need
to have more empathy for Japan.’”
North added: “If you’re going to run for president of the United
States, you cannot talk that way about the people who intend to kill us.
Who are dying to kill us. … This is capitulation.”
Hillary Clinton is taking heat for saying America should “empathize” and show “respect” for its enemies.
The former secretary of State, who is considered a likely 2016
Democratic presidential candidate, made the remarks during a speech
Wednesday at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Touting an approach she calls “smart power,” Clinton urged America to use “every possible tool and partner” to advance peace.
This, she said, includes “leaving no one on the sidelines, showing
respect even for one’s enemies, trying to understand and insofar as
psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of
view.”
At a time when the U.S. military is launching airstrikes against the
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, some called the comments out of place.
Former Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, a Fox News host, said the comments are “irrational.”
“I can’t think of a presidential candidate who would have said those
kinds of things,” he said. “Think about December 7, 1941 and then FDR
going to the Congress of the United States the next day saying, ‘We need
to have more empathy for Japan.’”
North added: “If you’re going to run for president of the United
States, you cannot talk that way about the people who intend to kill us.
Who are dying to kill us. … This is capitulation.”
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
I understand that a lot of the people that were trying to kill me saw me as a foreign invader, and I can't really blame them for that. I also understood the anger when I rolled into a village that just got droned and the hate in their eyes. I would feel it too if I just lost a loved one to "collateral damage"
That didn't make me any less efficient, nor did it make me any less capable of doing my job.
If our leaders do not understand those things, they will make terrible decisions, and have for the entire war.
If I thought for a second that she was genuine I would be impressed, but she has been an undercover warhawk for decades.
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
I understand that a lot of the people that were trying to kill me saw me as a foreign invader, and I can't really blame them for that. I also understood the anger when I rolled into a village that just got droned and the hate in their eyes. I would feel it too if I just lost a loved one to "collateral damage"
That didn't make me any less efficient, nor did it make me any less capable of doing my job.
If our leaders do not understand those things, they will make terrible decisions, and have for the entire war.
If I thought for a second that she was genuine I would be impressed, but she has been an undercover warhawk for decades.
advance peace? that's fuckin bullshit. any good small government, fiscal conservative knows we don't spend hundreds of billions of dollars on defending our freedoms for those missiles and tanks and state of the art planes and drones to just sit in some warehouse somewhere collecting dust. somewhere out there is some group that looks different than us and practices some religion we don't agree with that we can drop the hammer on.
and we have plenty of kids who have signed up to risk their lives ready to take the fight to them and although these fights never seem to have a winner and never seem to have any reasonable conclusion or timeframe, the one constant is the defense firms continue to make record profits and if that's not your idea of freedom, you must be some kind of liberal.
advance peace? that's fuckin bullshit. any good small government, fiscal conservative knows we don't spend hundreds of billions of dollars on defending our freedoms for those missiles and tanks and state of the art planes and drones to just sit in some warehouse somewhere collecting dust. somewhere out there is some group that looks different than us and practices some religion we don't agree with that we can drop the hammer on.
and we have plenty of kids who have signed up to risk their lives ready to take the fight to them and although these fights never seem to have a winner and never seem to have any reasonable conclusion or timeframe, the one constant is the defense firms continue to make record profits and if that's not your idea of freedom, you must be some kind of liberal.
having said my satndard rant on the bastardization of the terms liberal and conservative, i need to issue a disclaimer that this is no endorsement of hillary and i agree with this comment
If I thought for a second that she was genuine I would be impressed, but she has been an undercover warhawk for decades.
having said my satndard rant on the bastardization of the terms liberal and conservative, i need to issue a disclaimer that this is no endorsement of hillary and i agree with this comment
If I thought for a second that she was genuine I would be impressed, but she has been an undercover warhawk for decades.
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
I understand that a lot of the people that were trying to kill me saw me as a foreign invader, and I can't really blame them for that. I also understood the anger when I rolled into a village that just got droned and the hate in their eyes. I would feel it too if I just lost a loved one to "collateral damage"
That didn't make me any less efficient, nor did it make me any less capable of doing my job.
If our leaders do not understand those things, they will make terrible decisions, and have for the entire war.
If I thought for a second that she was genuine I would be impressed, but she has been an undercover warhawk for decades.
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
I understand that a lot of the people that were trying to kill me saw me as a foreign invader, and I can't really blame them for that. I also understood the anger when I rolled into a village that just got droned and the hate in their eyes. I would feel it too if I just lost a loved one to "collateral damage"
That didn't make me any less efficient, nor did it make me any less capable of doing my job.
If our leaders do not understand those things, they will make terrible decisions, and have for the entire war.
If I thought for a second that she was genuine I would be impressed, but she has been an undercover warhawk for decades.
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