As I see it, now.
Well, first of all, if that were to happen, it would be to
the chagrin of millions of Americans and probably hundreds of millions of
people all over the world.
It is likely that the number of tension and military
conflicts in the world would increase significantly, and along with it, the
world’s anxiety and unhappiness.
The level of the world’s anxiety would rise, as would
tension and conflict. President Hillary
Clinton would use America’s power more negatively and attempts to get her way
by force of arms than quiet and persistent diplomacy. It is likely that she
would exercise presidential power more in the manner of George W Bush and
Nixon, than Obama or Franklin D Roosevelt.
She appears to be the kind of woman who, if she were to become POTUS,
would have an unquenchable desire to demonstrate that it is she who ‘wears the
trousers’, and that a woman president can be as tough, if not tougher than any
male president. We have already see this
desire of hers to ‘wet her spear’, in how she had callously responded to the
news of the brutal murder of Muammar Al Gaddafi
President Hillary would, I believe, also has a score to
settle with husband, whose purported past infidelity she is unlikely to forget,
even if she has forgiven it.
On the home-front,
President Hillary Clinton might or might not make good her promises to maintain
and build on the advances – healthcare for Americans, more liberalization
towards illegal economic immigrants from Latin and South America, and reforming of the grossly indecent judiciary
and criminal justice systems which are doing a disservice to all or most of the
people they impact unpon. Both victims and perpetrators of cimes – actual and
economically contrived crimes – and to the tax-payers who have to pay the
police, the privatized penal industry, and the millions of dollars which are
being paid out to victims of police brutality.
Is a President H Clinton going to fare any better or make
more of a mess of the Middle East than President Obama’s policies have
done? Would she want and be successful
in re-establishing the dominance of the US/Sunni states’ alliance which been
dominating the region’s politics for the past several decades? With oil prices
now being a fraction of what they were several years ago, the attraction of the
oil rich Sunni Middle Eastern states are
not the Eldorado they were in the past.
Similarly, the religious orthodoxy which the Sunni states are
practising, and which is so attractive to Jihadi fanatics who want to take not
only Islam, but all other faiths and non-theists back into the barbarity and
ignorance of the past, has become a thing of fear for the enlightened people of
the west, both Muslims and believers of other faiths. Consequently, one would have expected
President Hillary to continue with President Obama’s re-alignment policy in the
Middle East, probably with the focus being on how to further encourage better
relations between Sunni and Shiite states.
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