At a speech Friday to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) said "no option can be taken off the table" when dealing with Iran, RAW STORY has learned.Clinton tempered her remarks by saying she's advocated engagement with "our enemies and Israeli's enemies," adding, "I believe we can gain valuable knowledge and leverage from being part of a process again that enables us to get a better idea of how to take on and defeat our adversaries." Her quotes were reported by the Associated Press.
| Thus playing both sides, her forte. The 'talk with our enemies' allows the progressives to demand talk to the exclusion of doing anything. The 'all options are on the table' allows her to play to the AIPAC crowd which has a lot of money. Both sides get to hear what they want to hear. |
AIPAC tends to take a more hawkish stance on foreign policy, and has routinely labels Iran a serious threat. In a Dec. 6 memo, the group labeled Iran "The Core of Instability in the Middle East."
Clinton told some 1,700 AIPAC supporters that the US must take any step to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. "U.S. policy must be clear and unequivocal: We cannot, we should not, we must not permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons," she said. "In dealing with this threat ... no option can be taken off the table."
"To deny the Holocaust places Iran's leadership in company with the most despicable bigots and historical revisionists," she added. Clinton excoriated the Iranian administration's "pro-terrorist, anti-American, anti-Israeli rhetoric." "We need to use every tool at our disposal, including diplomatic and economic in addition to the threat and use of military force," she added.
| Sounds promising until you realize that it's Hildy doing the talking. |
