Really Senator Clinton? Obliterate will you?

Hillary Clinton the Democrat Party presidential hopeful (in USA) has threatened to “obliterate” Iran “if it attacks Israel”. She is increasingly morphing into an American the world likes to hate. Iran is no banana republic, it is a great nation and like all societies around the world it has its own share of fundamentalists. Attacking Israel is hypothetical but by threatening to ‘obliterate’ if you do is instigation. How about some leader in another country saying I will obliterate USA, surely that is terrorism!!. Dictionary meaning of Obliterate is ‘to destroy completely’, ‘annihilate’.

Really Senator Clinton you do want to destroy completely, is it?. 2006 census of Iran puts the population at 70million (two-third below 30years of age-the snap of Iranian children taken from a blog). Senator Clinton 70million is a huge number of people you want to reduce to ash, clearly if you have such intentions before the election then God save us (in comparison Hitler was subtle). Obliterate is the word that resonate with genocide, extermination, cleansing, holocaust...

Creating external enemy to rally people around is an old ploy (and Wild West does love it. Aint it?). Senator Clinton is positioning herself as tough and decisive. In American context ‘decisive’ means attacking other countries and

causing misery to people. They have other words like ‘collateral damage’ more civilized society would refer to it as mass murder. By these actions they have created more enemies. Enemy is not about individuals it is a mindset. Individuals can be killed but the mindset prevails and spreads faster, in this case getting increasingly bitter. Of course Taliban are serious threat but the way they have dealt has made it only worse, it is American arrogance at its worst. They have created more terrorists by their unilateral actions. Attacking Iraq was a serious blunder (incidentally this blogger was never against action against Afghanistan- though it could have been multilateral).

Hillary Clinton incidentally had supported the attack on Iraq, now she cannot pretend ignorance (as Mike Moore said in CNN sometime back …you cannot be less intelligent than millions of people who were against it and aspire to lead…there is something wrong here). Obama is a great guy and has got his heart in the right place, he also motivates. There are dimensions about him that is inspiring. Recently the Hillary campaign has been focusing to cut him, therefore the ploy of instigating him, con him to blunder, as it turns vicious they will make him say things and take it out of context- that too an old ploy, but in here the damage will be significant. Following the script Senator Clinton is invoking external threat right from pearl harbour (now when was that?) to Osama and ability to meet these crisis. One thought there are some very significant crisis facing America and the world. The debate has gone very negative and personal despite Barak Obama’s best effort. This will help warmongers on the other side.

Supporting woman candidate just because she is a woman is bias but if she brings in perspectives that is absent in the decision making then that is significant otherwise there shouldn’t be any difference between male or female. It is getting clear that Senator Clinton though a remarkable lady seems to be lacking any new thinking or for that matter change. This blogger has started to see her as not much different from Bush, despite her intentions she is not giving the genuineness, this blogger has lost faith in her. It looks all made up for the show. I don’t know but is there a ploy by Republicans to keep Hillary Clinton going? It looks very plausible since it is going to be a pyrrhic victory, very much to their advantage. Obliteration is a strong word to be used against a set of people for perceived threat, it is quite sad. Senator Clinton might have won Primaries but it would do the Party and US and the world much good if she quits. It has to be Barak Obama, the earlier they decide the better.

Post script: This blogger strongly prefer Nancy Pelosi, the US house Speaker. She definitely has the perspective that could enrich policy making in Washington.