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Hillary has an Uphill Battle on the War
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02/02/07 09:02 AM ET
On MSNBC's "Hardball" this week, host Chris Matthews asked Time's Jay Carney if Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) would support a strike on Iran by the Bush administration (Matthews actually raised his hand in a salute to illustrate her potential acquiescence). Carney said he couldn't imagine Clinton getting away with doing so, and with the base still awaiting her reversal/apology for supporting the Iraq war, Carney's on the money. But then Matthews asked the right question — having supported every war in her life, why would we expect her to back away from the new one?
When Clinton spoke to American Israel Public Affairs Committee in New York yesterday she began her necessary and painful straddle before a very friendly crowd — and they didn't like it. Clinton encouraged engaging Iran and Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah because she said we should better understand the enemy in order to defeat those "aiming their hatred, their extremism and their weapons at us." She inserted the key statement, hinting at a possible future conflict, when she said: "I also want to send a message — if we ever do take more drastic action — to the rest of the world that we exhausted all possibilities because we need friends and allies to stand with us as we stand with Israel in this long war against terror and extremism."
With two feet planted in two places, Clinton shrewdly reminded the crowd that she is looking out for Israel's interests. There were "grumbles" and little applause, according to the New York Post. Several attendees told the reporter they were put off by Clinton's remarks, and one said, "This is the wrong crowd to do that with."
An uphill battle indeed.
When Clinton spoke to American Israel Public Affairs Committee in New York yesterday she began her necessary and painful straddle before a very friendly crowd — and they didn't like it. Clinton encouraged engaging Iran and Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah because she said we should better understand the enemy in order to defeat those "aiming their hatred, their extremism and their weapons at us." She inserted the key statement, hinting at a possible future conflict, when she said: "I also want to send a message — if we ever do take more drastic action — to the rest of the world that we exhausted all possibilities because we need friends and allies to stand with us as we stand with Israel in this long war against terror and extremism."
With two feet planted in two places, Clinton shrewdly reminded the crowd that she is looking out for Israel's interests. There were "grumbles" and little applause, according to the New York Post. Several attendees told the reporter they were put off by Clinton's remarks, and one said, "This is the wrong crowd to do that with."
An uphill battle indeed.
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