Hillary Clinton and Iran: The Truth Comes Out

While the fawning media continues to paint Hillary as tough enough to handle the terror threats from her mortal enemies, her speech yesterday (to a pro-Israel group, to boot) left no doubt about the path she would take:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton drew grumbles at a pro-Israel dinner in Times Square last night when she encouraged "engaging" with Iran before taking stronger action to keep it nuke-free.
Clinton said she wasn't sure "anything positive would come out of it" and she didn't know if it was "the smartest strategy to take," but added, "There are a number of factors that I think argue for some attempt to do what I have suggested."
She called for a better understanding of how Iran "really functions," warning actions beyond sanctions could increase danger in the region.

"I also want to send a message, if we ever do have to take more drastic action, to the rest of the world that we exhausted all possibilities," said Clinton, who earlier rapped President Bush for refusing to engage Tehran.

Clinton's remarks at the Marriott Marquis were met with little applause, and after she left the stage, several people said they were put off by the presidential candidate….

Points to ponder:
- there is no such thing as “exhausting all possibilities”. You can always retreat further and further, giving up more and more ground while declaring victory (just ask Neville Chamberlain!).
- Is asking (or forcing) Israel to concede territory to the Palestinians to appease Iran a “possibility”? Why not? What falls under “all possibilities”? If you are banking on world opinion for support, who knows what possibilities are out there? Apparently, they are all on the table for Hillary and the Democrats…
- If this is how Hillary acts in front of a “tough on Iran” crowd (and it is fine, if these are her real feelings, which is always a difficult thing to discern), are her true intentions even more dovish, like her husband’s failed appeasement of North Korea, which allowed them to become a nuclear-armed state run by an immature psychopath? Wonder what she’ll have to say to the really left-of-center crowd…

UPDATE: Oh, Hillary! Here she speaks about the Democrat's plan to confiscate oil company profits. Gee, that'll do wonders for the stock market and 401(k)'s of every middle-class American! But she supports us, just like she supports the troops....
Silent Running puts Hillary's declaration in proper perspective {"Conspiracy to commit theft"}; and uses the "tobacco model" to project gasoline futures...

UPDATE II - 2/3 - Just how many times can one woman flip ? With Hil, it's whenever the heat gets turned up:

"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.

So this is how she speaks to AIPAC, the most influential, hawkish of Jewish influence groups. Above we saw how she spoke to a more dovish one....does this woman hold any conviction, on any issue, at all?