@edgarblythe,
Clinton was one of 77 Senators to vote for the Iraq Resolution, along with Joe Biden, Diane Feinstein, and John Kerry. The resolution empowered the president to go into Iraq if the situation called for it, it did not demand he do so. The resolution came after false intel was fed the Senators. However, being fed a yes/no vote as a Senator is not the same as being a president and having the ability to shape the choices we make. Did we get into bad involvements when her husband, Bill, was president? No.
We straightened out the breakup of Yugoslavia, put an end to the blood running in the streets from militias which were going town to town and killing people. "Ethnic cleansing" they called it. As Russia waited on the sidelines trying to get re-involved in the area militarily, Clinton brought the parties together, got them to sign the Dayton Accords, and put an end to the bloodshed while keeping Russia out of the area. That is one fine piece of work which nobody thought could happen, but Bill Clinton pulled it off. That's what happens when you have competent people running things.
About the only slightly bad aftermath of that is the Serbs, (5 Million people), might not join the EU after the Russians financed an internet troll effort to turn them against the EU. Meanwhile, over 100 Million people in the former Soviet serf states have their freedom and EU membership and are rapidly moving forward as Russia plunges into economic Depression. Which is not paid much attention to in the West, because by Western standards, Russia already is in a Depression even in the best of economic times so it's hard to see when they go into what Russians consider a Depression. But there they are.
And here we are, recovering from our own 2008 recession where the country LOST 11 Million Full Time jobs in 2008-9. In the last 12 months alone we have GAINED 2.3 Million Full Time jobs and 5 Million Full Time jobs in the last two years. The deficit has been cut way down, and the the national debt/GDP ratio, which rose at a sky high rate for a few years during the recession has cooled down and has nearly levelled off, rising an average of only 1.2% annually for the last four years.
http://cdn.tradingeconomics.com/charts/united-states-government-debt-to-gdp.png?s=usadebt2gdp&v=201604041725n
Combined with the rising GDP, shrinking deficit and remarkable rebound in Full Time jobs, this country is headed in the right direction in so many ways. Oh, did I mention that blacks, while only 13% of the population, have gotten 24% of the Full Time jobs in the past two years? Not to mention that under Bill Clinton, they got 30% of the Full Time jobs under his watch. In both Administrations all races total did well in the Full Time job department, (Obama's Administration had to get past the worst of the recession he was stuck with when he took office), but that is how you get social justice peacefully. By having the groups who were traditionally left back move forward somewhat faster than the country as a whole, which also is moving forward themselves.
Sorry, I like the direction we are going. Bernie? He's a nice guy. And he has some real good ideas and I admire how he has managed to come as far as he did by using small donations. But Bill Clinton had the country going in the right direction in so many ways until Bush and the Republicans screwed things. And Obama has weathered the horrible recession he inherited from Bush with almost nothing but vicious opposition from the Republicans-he has the country going in the right direction as well. So I am not inclined to agree with people who think that the progress Clinton and Obama have gained should be dismissed and that their votes should go to third parties, even at the risk of the people who screwed everything getting back into power and start disassembling the New Deal. Enough people listened to the Pied Piper in 2000 and got Iraq and the Recession, we can only hope that people have learned their lesson. And ignore people who advocate that they give their vote to fashionable third party candidacies.
