Hillary's loose lips
Turns out telling people you'll obliterate a country has the effect of making some people a tad nervous.
Jaded American insiders shrugged off the remark as typical campaign season bluster, filed away with myriad other exaggerations and gaffes.
But it prompted shock overseas as well as headlines from Bulgaria to New Zealand.
The statement triggered alarm bells in the Persian Gulf, which would likely suffer the consequences of any war between Iran and the U.S. In a harshly worded editorial, the Saudi-based daily Arab News trashed Clinton's comment today as insane:
Update:
All that said, I don't agree with this:
If so, it cannot be assumed that Hillary Clinton as president would be less irrationally hawkish and more restrained in the unleashing of military force than John McCain. The latter, at least, has personal experience with the true, on-the-ground costs of militarism gone wild.
Forget that. McCain is more hawkish than Bush and can't even keep the major players in the game straight. As President, he'll be a disaster, which is why I so dislike Hillary copping his lines so often in her campaign to try and ruin Obama, but she'd still make a better president than McCain.
