Hillary Clinton Sikh jam, Trump signal scandal

When writing to the New York Times, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stumbled against “the most recent in a series of wounds that the self is raised” resulting from the administration of President Donald Trump this week, after Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic editor -in -chief, revealed that he was added to a group of group chat that discusses plans to strike Yemen.

Clinton’s reaction is noticeable because about a decade ago, some of the same Republicans are now playing the signal scandal Unimaginable She accused her of mistreating information classified as Minister of State because she had Use a special email server To send official messages.

The Trump administration did not use a special application, a sign, to coordinate war plans – it appears to be his national security advisor A journalist added to the group by mistake Those who saw planning after that.

“It is not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it’s stupidity,” Clinton wrote in Piece of opinion Posted on Friday, entitled “Hillary Clinton: How much will this idiot happen?”

“It is just stupid,” she said later, adding: “In a dangerous and complex world, it is not enough to be strong. You must be smart too.”

Among the “stupid” decisions made by the Trump administration so far are: expelling people who maintain nuclear weapons stocks, cut international aid to prevent future epidemics, and the experienced generals refused.

Clinton wrote that the best approach to preserving America is safe, is the combination of “the difficult power of our army with the soft power of our diplomacy, our development assistance, economic power and cultural influence.”

“None of these tools can do the task alone. It makes America a great power. Trump’s approach is a stupid power. Instead of using strong America all our strengths to lead the world and confront our opponents, America will be increasingly blind and wrong, weak and friends.”

As Trump continued to call for cutting “waste, fraud and abuse” supposed in the federal government, Clinton has argued that placing money behind the American soft power provides money in the long run when the alternative is a military action.

“Preventing wars is cheaper than fighting it,” she said.

Clinton also drew a disturbing image of the risk on hand.

She wrote: “Publicity in Beijing and Moscow knows that we are in a global debate about competing regimes. People and leaders around the world are watching to see if democracy can still offer peace, prosperity, or even a job.” “If America is a court like a banana republic, with blatant corruption and a leader who places himself above the law, then we lose this argument.”

Read the entire piece In the New York Times.