HILLARY CLINTON, american sec of state, insists that she, not the president, is responsible for the safety and security of all Unites States state department personnel around the world, which consists of approximately sixty thousand people stationed in close to three hundred locations.
She must know, as must we all, that she can do nothing to ensure said safety, nor can anyone else. We know that anybody can kill anybdoy, if the murderer is willing to die while so doing. The secretary of state can issue whatever directives she wants from behind a mahogany desk at the state department, but she can do nothing tangible.
The political squabble concerns whether the attack in lybia which killed the U.S. ambassador to libya was a spontaneous response to a video on youtube, or a preplanned terrorist atack. obama initially said the former, then changed to the latter. romney jumped on it.
Alarmingly, hillary insists that the united states shall never tremble or withdraw from its involvements around the world, and shall remain fully engaged wherever american "interests and values" are involved.
And just exactly where and what is this? Exactly where are american interests and values involved? Perhaps everywhere? Perhaps in all nations of the earth, and even beyond this planet and solar system?
Exactly what are american interests and values? Making the world safe and available for american corporate capitalism? Democracy? Plutocracy? Christianity?
Why, exactly should the interests and values of any nation, including the united states, extend beyond its own borders? If the state department considers american interests interests and values vital, does anyone else?
Patriotism corrupts history, correctly stated goethe. What does imperialism do to history?
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