The Hillary Clinton Doctrine of Smart Power was all based on the idea we had 'smart bombs' and technological edge in so many areas, why not use it to achieve some ideological end? Allowing military thinking to drive diplomacy and foreign policy is the lesson of two centuries of German militarism. Maintaining combat readiness, while resisting the temptation to use it, is the challenge democratic leadership faces. Sarkozy, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Cameron all fell guilty to the same war crimes Hitler and the Kaiser were guilty of. | The Hillary Clinton Doctrine of Smart Power was all based on the idea we had 'smart bombs' and technological edge in so many areas, why not use it to achieve some ideological end? Allowing military thinking to drive diplomacy and foreign policy is the lesson of two centuries of German militarism. Maintaining combat readiness, while resisting the temptation to use it, is the challenge democratic leadership faces. Sarkozy, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Cameron all fell guilty to the same war crimes Hitler and the Kaiser were guilty of. |