McPherson: Hillary Joins the Club

Take all your overgrown infants away, somewhere

And build them a home, a little place of their own

The Fletcher Memorial Home

For incurable tyrants and kings...

–Pink Floyd, The Fletcher Memorial Home

Joining the Big Stupid Ideas Club, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reiterated to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Friday that she completely supports a No Fly Zone in Syria – but that it wouldn’t necessarily lead to conflict with Russia.

How’s that?

After getting a long and rambling answer to the question of shooting down Russian aircraft, Maddow cut Clinton off by pointing out that “ultimately a no-fly zone is an anti-aircraft proposition.” But Clinton responded, “It is, but that doesn’t mean you shoot at every aircraft that might violate it the first or second time.”

Clinton is a quick study: Like her bumbling boss, she likes to talk about red lines that don’t mean anything.

Quick question: If the Russians were declaring a No Fly Zone, would the War Party be so blasé?

Not a chance.

Russia, by the way, is in Syria at the request of that country’s legitimate government. (Not legitimate, you say? Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry called Bashar Assad “generous” and “my dear friend,” and visited with him frequently. Hillary Clinton called him a “reformer.” And lest we forget, US support for Syria goes back even further than that.)

The US, on the other hand, is supporting rebels fighting that government. That is an act of war.

So is a No Fly Zone.

Hatchet Hillary loves war. She’s not so good at it though. Cackling about throwing your weight around is far easier than dealing with the aftermath.

She also has quite a list of enemies – the NRA, healthcare companies, pharmaceutical companies, the Iranians (all of them), and Republicans. If she gets her way, next will be the Russians. That could well mean a shooting war.