Hillary Consulted Republicans, Neocons, Liberals For Big Foreign Policy Speech

By GottaLaff

Didn't we have 8 long years of "hawkish"? Correction: Chicken hawkish. Now Hillary has got an entire smorgasbord in front of her, and here's what, or rather who, she chose to add to her plate:

Hillary is set to deliver her high-profile speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, and is set to articulate her own policy agenda, one focused on strengthening America’s “smart power,” according to The Politico. It could help settle whether she has privately favored a more hawkish stance towards hostile foreign powers, as she reportedly has.

The array of people she has consulted for this speech is striking in its diversity, boasting a notable array of Republicans, foreign policy “realists” and hawkish voices. A partial list:

Henry Kissinger, Nixon’s secretary of state; George Schultz, Reagan’s secretary of state; Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s hawkish “realist” foreign policy adviser; Paul Farmer, a doctor and international humanitarian; Joseph Nye, a major proponent of “soft power,” the idea that persuasion and attraction can be more effective than coercion; Francis Fukuyama, who helped drive the rise of neoconservatism; Brent Scowcroft; the “realist” national security adviser under George H.W. Bush; Strobe Talbott, Clinton’s deputy secretary of state; John Podesta, the head of the liberal Center for American Progress; and Richard Lugar, the Republican Senator who has praised Obama’s response to the Iran crisis.

Hillary has also consulted with administration figures like President Obama himself, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and national security adviser James Jones.

Now we'll wait and see what tidbits she chose from that extensive buffet. I hope they run out of overcooked hawk. Or at least, that maybe the menu includes some Chateau de Dove.

Anyone got a Tums?