Forget the war on women — Ralph Nader is more concerned about women at war.
The former Green Party and Independent presidential candidate suggested during a recent discussion of his newly-released book that Hillary Clinton has been overly supportive of U.S. military action in order to compensate for her gender, as reports PJ Media.
“I think Hillary is not the Hillary of when she was 30 years old,” Nader alleged. “She made peace with the power structure and she is a deep corporatist and a deep militarist. One can almost forgive the corporatism. She moved to New York with Bill because that’s where the power is and Wall Street, but her militarism is absolutely shocking.”
“She almost singlehandedly did the Libyan war,” Nader accused. “The Defense Department was against it — [Secretary Robert] Gates — and she persuaded the White House that it was an easy topple without knowing that in a tribal society with nothing to replace it you would have civil war, sectarian killings spilling into Africa, weapons everywhere, Mali, central Africa.”
“And she’s being accused of Benghazi. The big thing is the huge amount of geography now that has been destabilized because of the Libyan overthrow,” he continued. “And, when she was on the Senate Armed Services Committee, she never met a weapon system she didn’t like.”
Nader’s explanation for Clinton’s “shocking” militarism? Her desire to “overcompensate” for her female sex by appearing more “aggressive and macho.”
“You see, this is the problem of women trying to overcompensate in becoming more aggressive and macho so they are not accused of being soft on the need to kill and war, right?” Nader said. “Instead of taking the tradition of women of peace, and turning into a muscular waging of peace and conflict prevention, she [Clinton] did the reverse, and [Madeline] Albright did the reverse and Anne Marie Slaughter did the reverse and some of Obama’s advisers did the reverse.”
“We have to be transcendent on this,” he added. “We have to really go right to the core of what people are standing for, fighting for and fighting against.”
Nader also complained about “the coronation syndrome” of the United States that has pushed “dynasty” candidates like Bush and Clinton toward the front of the presidential pack.
“[It] demeans the talent pool in this country,” Nader said.
H/T Reason
