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COLUMN:
Hillary Has Had Choice Words For World Leaders,
TooShe Compared Putin to Hitler
In Hillary Clintons foreign policy speech,
she claimed that Donald Trump was
temperamentally unfit to be President,
and that it would not be hard to imagine
Donald Trump leading us into a war just
because somebody got under his very thin
skin.1
But back in 2014, Hillary sparked,
what the Washington Post labeled, a
political uproar when she likened
Vladmir Putin to Adolf Hitler.2 The next
day, Hillary stood by, and refused to
retract, her statement.3 The Washington
Post quoted former officials from the
Clinton and Reagan administrations that
were critical of the former Secretary of
State.
James Collins, who was an ambassador
to Russia under President Bill Clinton,
was quoted in the Washington Post
describing the reckless nature of Hillarys
comments. A statement that equates
Russians to Nazis and Mr. Putin to what
Hitler was doing is simply going to
inflame Russian opinion, he said.
Lawrence Korb, an alumnus of the
President Ronald Reagan administration,
said Hillarys comments hurt more than
they can help. Whatever Putin is, he
wasnt like Hitler. He didnt massacre
thousands of non-Russians in Georgia or
anything like that.4
Moreover, Hillary was not even
accurate in her insult. One commentator
opined that Hillarys comparison was

tenuous at best, and admonished

Hillary, because [w]e are dealing with a
major power with nuclear weapons that
has the capacity to reduce the world to so
much irradiated ash. The West needs to
be careful with its words.5
We need not forget that the Russian
Reset that Hillary was put in charge of
has epically failed. 6 In the wake of the
Reset and arms agreement, Russia has
deployed new long-range missiles, 7
threatened to use nuclear weapons 8
against NATO countries over Ukraine,
increased
their
deployed
nuclear
9
weapons to levels exceeding the arms
agreement, announced they would add
another forty intercontinental nuclear
missiles10 to their arsenal in an effort to
modernize their stockpiles, and illegally
tested cruise missiles11 in violation of the
1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces
Treaty (the same treaty the Obama
administration explicitly accused Russia
of violating12 in 2014).
In sum, it is utterly hypocritical for
Hillary to suggest Trump would do
damage to United States foreign policy by
having spats with foreign leaders,
especially when she has made one of the
most egregious comparisons not only to a
foreign leader, but to the next largest
nuclear superpower. Accordingly, cannot
assume, due to previous comments, that
Hillary is more temperamentally fit to be
the
next
Commander-in-Chief.

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References

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Katie Reilly, Read Hillary Clintons Speech on Donald Trump and National Security, TIME MAGAZINE (Jun. 2,
2016), http://time.com/4355797/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-foreign-policy-speech-transcript/ (last visited Jun. 6,
2016).
2 Phillip Rucker, Hillary Clintons Putin-Hitler comments draw rebukes as she wades into Ukraine conflict, THE
WASHINGTON POST (Mar. 5, 2014), https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clintons-putin-hitler-commentsdraw-rebukes-as-she-wades-into-ukraine-conflict/2014/03/05/31a748d8-a486-11e3-84d4-e59b1709222c_story.html
(last visited Jun. 7, 2016). See also Karen Robes Meeks, Listen to Hillary Clinton compare Russian President
Vladmir Putin to Hitler, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS (Mar. 5, 2014), http://www.dailynews.com/generalnews/20140305/listen-to-hillary-clinton-compare-russian-president-vladimir-putin-to-hitler (last visited Jun. 7,
2016).
3 See Phillip Rucker, supra note 2.
4 Id.
5 Timothy Stanley, Hillary, Putins no Hitler, CABLE NEWS NETWORK (Mar. 5, 2014),
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/05/opinion/stanley-hillary-clinton-hitler/ (last visited Jun. 7, 2016).
6 See Phillip Rucker, supra note 2. See also, e.g., Max Fisher, A visual report card for U.S. foreign relations in 2013
(it looks pretty bad), THE WASHINGTON POST (Oct. 25, 2013),
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/10/25/a-visual-report-card-for-american-foreignrelations-in-2013-it-looks-pretty-bad/ (last visited Jun. 6, 2016); William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, Race for
Latest Class of Nuclear Arms Threatens to Revive Cold War, THE NEW YORK TIMES (Apr. 16, 2016),
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/science/atom-bomb-nuclear-weapons-hgv-arms-race-russia-china.html?_r=0
(last visited Jun. 6, 2016);
7 William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, Race for Latest Class of Nuclear Arms Threatens to Revive Cold War, THE
NEW YORK TIMES (Apr. 16, 2016), http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/science/atom-bomb-nuclear-weapons-hgvarms-race-russia-china.html?_r=0 (last visited Jun. 6, 2016).
8 The Editorial Board, Lost Opportunity on Nuclear Disarmament, The New York Times (Jun. 3, 2015),
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/opinion/lost-opportunity-on-nuclear-disarmament.html (last visited Jun. 6,
2016).
9 Bill Gertz, Russia Adds 111 Warheads Under Arms Treaty, THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON (Oct. 9, 2015),
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-adds-111-warheads-under-arms-treaty/ (last visited Jun. 6, 2016).
10 W.J. Hennigan and Ralph Vartabedian, Future of nuclear arms control looks bleak, experts say, THE LOS ANGELES
TIMES (Jul 9, 2015), http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nuclear-treaties-20150709-story.html (last visited Jun. 6,
2016).
11 See, supra note 25.
12 Michael R. Gordon, U.S. Says Russia Tested Cruise Missile, Violating Treaty, THE NEW YORK TIMES (Jul. 28,
2014), http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/world/europe/us-says-russia-tested-cruise-missile-in-violation-oftreaty.html (last visited Jun. 6, 2016).
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