I agree that Weaver's claim falls flat. It is painting with too broad a stroke and comes out quite facile. (Moreover, the Sanders campaign continues to stumble in its own foreign policy vision, with Sanders himself offering support for the continuation of targeted killings and suggesting a bigger role for the Saudi military in the region -- unless he has more recently revised these ludicrous claims, in which case I would very gladly revise my view!)
But despite this, I hope that we can easily enough demonstrate Clinton's culpability in another field: the arming of authoritarian regimes. True, the American munitions that are currently killing hundreds of Yemeni civilians were sold to the Saudi state *after* Clinton's resignation from the State Department. Yet one might argue that she set the trend when in office, with one deal alone worth almost thirty billion dollars to the Saudis:
Then, if we turn to our own hemisphere, we see that she bankrolled Mexican state violence, expanding Bush's failed drug wars, but turning them into successful fund raising opportunities for the Clinton Foundation:
This is to say nothing of the millions of federal dollars she funneled to the Honduras coup regime when she was secretary of state and thus board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation:
One guess: The United States might have access to evidence that directly incriminates high-ranking AKP members in their supposed support of and alliance with daesh. For example:
In any case, even if it's not as explicit as the above, Erdoğan & co.'s relations with daesh are an open secret.
With much hope, none of this will matter after elections tomorrow, when the AKP mafia is booted out of power and HDP comes to play a central role in the next government.
Thank you for the informed comment, professor!
I agree that Weaver's claim falls flat. It is painting with too broad a stroke and comes out quite facile. (Moreover, the Sanders campaign continues to stumble in its own foreign policy vision, with Sanders himself offering support for the continuation of targeted killings and suggesting a bigger role for the Saudi military in the region -- unless he has more recently revised these ludicrous claims, in which case I would very gladly revise my view!)
But despite this, I hope that we can easily enough demonstrate Clinton's culpability in another field: the arming of authoritarian regimes. True, the American munitions that are currently killing hundreds of Yemeni civilians were sold to the Saudi state *after* Clinton's resignation from the State Department. Yet one might argue that she set the trend when in office, with one deal alone worth almost thirty billion dollars to the Saudis:
http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187
Then, if we turn to our own hemisphere, we see that she bankrolled Mexican state violence, expanding Bush's failed drug wars, but turning them into successful fund raising opportunities for the Clinton Foundation:
https://nacla.org/news/2016/03/03/hillary-clinton's-dark-drug-war-legacy-mexico
This is to say nothing of the millions of federal dollars she funneled to the Honduras coup regime when she was secretary of state and thus board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation:
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2015/07/emails-show-secretary-clinton-disobeyed-obama-policy-and-continued-fund
This shouldn't have been one of those "Hard Choices" and ultimately if indirectly led to atrocities like this:
http://www.thenation.com/article/the-clinton-backed-honduran-regime-is-picking-off-indigenous-leaders/
If I too am painting with too large a brush-stroke, I welcome push-back.
"How did Washington get Ankara to agree to that?"
One guess: The United States might have access to evidence that directly incriminates high-ranking AKP members in their supposed support of and alliance with daesh. For example:
http://jöntürk.com/2015/07/29/abdnin-elindeki-flas-disklerde-erdogan-isid-baglantisinin-kanitlari-var/
In any case, even if it's not as explicit as the above, Erdoğan & co.'s relations with daesh are an open secret.
With much hope, none of this will matter after elections tomorrow, when the AKP mafia is booted out of power and HDP comes to play a central role in the next government.