Do you trust Hillary Clinton or any woman president to use military force in international affairs?

Question

Just polling folks to see if they think a woman (nuturer of life, typically great at communicating) could ever push the button or make the call to invade Iran, Syria or North Korea.

Answer 1

I think a woman, it doesn't have to be Hillary Clinton, would still take the needs of the US at heart when making that decision. Condie Rice was a main developer of the current Bush administration's policies for the Iraq War. In other countries, such as Israel, Golda Meir was the Prime Minister who called the shots against the Arab nations during the Six Day War in 1967. Indira Gandhi, PM of India, was a strong force to be reckoned with and was no pushover. I believe a woman is very capable in defending the country as Commander-in-Chief, if necessary. If a nation tried to sell us short because we had a female president might find themselves in deeper trouble because of it.

Answer 2

Yes I do very much so, Women have been rulers for ages. The great Pharoah Queens? Elizabeth the first? Mary 1? Maria Theresa of Austria, and many more women have been the brains and the power behind the man and as a team we can do it with Hillary. She has many advisors and is extremely intelligent enough to listen to those advisors, and she will not cower in the line of fire, remember the scandals she went through and not once has she weakened, she went and got elected in the US Senate in NYC after being First Lady and a lawyer. I think she is more capable than the existing administration. She is the woman that can replace 10 men, for sure. She is a power house. Besides, Korea, and all those other countries will listen to her from previous respect for her and her husband. You did not see any planes crashing into buildings when Clinton was in for 8 years did you? No way. Because he probably would have destroyed them entirely and they knew that and were afraid. They are a team effort and that is a team I am with all the way. They are a couple that has more strength than all of this administration put together, look at their records of success compared to this administration, and no exuses necessary for the Bush Clan they are failures, and Clinton will be a great power to reckon with and these Arab terrorists know it so they will put plenty of money behind the opposition so they can keep their oil and power. Hillary has already devised a way to destroy their economy to save ours believe it man, she is ruthless in law and brilliant, she will see that there is a turkey on all our tables. Do you know how far back her family dates back in this country? This country is her life. Man I feel sorry for those Terrorists eh? They better get their shovels out and dig their graves right now if they want to mess with her, because they won't have the time when to do it later, as a matter of fact they won't be able to find them through the ashes. ha ha

Answer 3

Hillary is a politician so that answer is no. Bush is pathetic, his daddy was , Bill Clinton was a joke and she will do just as bil did - we were attacked several times while he was in and we did nothing except bomb serbia - who was killing al queda in bosnia...her husband sided with al queda..is a liar just as Bush is and her husband was about serbia.

I am not a Republican nor Democrat. While Hillary was screaming that the current administration was a culture of corruption , hypocrasy this and that - her law firm in washington and several of the democrats were fighting to keep the Barrett INvestigation Report that cost the taxpayer 25 million dollars from getting out into the public and debated. This is the ONLY investigation done by independent counsel in the history of the USA that has not been publicly open. Three liberal judges ruled that the ONLY way this report would be released was if all allegations of crime against the clintons were deleted....so what was left was released and the rest is blacked out. The clintons , John Kerry, Levin and the rest of the crooks, say that there was nothing to the report...if so, then release what was deleted..... so do I believe anything that rolls out of her lying mouth ...???? No....NO NO...

Answer 4

I guess you never heard of Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher or Indira Gandhi!!

Golda Meir was the Israeli Prime Minister during the Six Day War, the Suez Canal War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War. She also was responsible for developing Israel's Atomic Bomb and she had a team of Mossad hit men launch a campaign of assassination against PLO commandos across three continents.

And she used to be a kindergarten teacher in Milwaukee before she was a politician

Margaret Thatcher launched a war against Argentina when they took the Malvinas Islands back from England, she also continued the war against the IRA in Northern Ireland and she used soldiers and police to break the British coal miners strike in 1984.

Indira Gandhi launched India's nuclear program, imposed martial law to repress her political opponents and invaded Pakistan in 1970 (destroying half the Pakistani Army and seperating half of Pakistan off into a seperate country, Bangladesh). She also had Indian soldiers and police launch massive search and destroy campaigns against Communist Naxalite rebels, Kashmiri, Sikh and Tamil seperatists and bandit gangs.

As a result of her anti-Sikh seperatist campaign (and the destruction of the Golden Temple with cannons that was a part of that campaign) Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her own Indian Army bodyguards (who, unfortunately for her, happened to be Sikhs)

Bottom line, women politicians are as capable of using force as male politicians are! The fact that they have uteruses is irrelevant!

Answer 5

don't stereotype. I've seen some pretty hard-*** women in my day. nurturer of life? hopefully men are like this as well.

But to play this game:

Women...nurturer of life...would make sure that if the military is used, and lives are to be lost...it will be for the RIGHT reasons and a decision made after all other ways of negotiation are exhausted...but since women are great at communicating...a deal will probably be made fairly so that we do not need a war!

However, most people in the United States are too insecure in their gender to vote for a woman even if that particular candidate is the right choice based on skills, abilities and current national needs.

Answer 6

I think hillary Clinton is a remarkably strong woman. I trust her to do what is right for the country, even if it meant all out war. But I believe she would try diplomacy first. War would be the last resort not a first choice. I think she'd be an excellent president.

Answer 7

Although we must take into account which specific woman or man we're looking at, in general I would trust women *more* in using military force, because I don't see most women getting drawn into pis*ing contests with other countries as easily as some men can. If a woman uses force, it's almost *always* necessary.

Answer 8

Er, Margaret Thatcher didn't have much of a problem with that - see The Falklands War. I doubt Hillary would either.

Answer 9

I would not have a problem trusting the right woman. However there is no way I would ever trust Hillary Clinton, or Nancy Palosi. (sp). Check out Sarah Palin the new governor of Alaska. Now there is a woman with some brains and common sense. I could trust her.

Answer 10

Politicians are politicians, so yes... They are largely inclined to do as the controlling house beckons them to. Since Hillary Clinton is a democrat, you know that the democrats will be pulling her strings to a large extent, and she's also one of them.

I might also remind you that she was for the war at first.