In Magazine Interview, President Clinton Has Praise for Bush's Foreign Policy

New York Sun:

In an interview for a high-profile magazine cover story just hitting newsstands, President Clinton offers praise for several foreign policy initiatives undertaken by President Bush.

Speaking with Condé Nast Traveler, Mr. Clinton lauds Mr. Bush mostly for decisions that involved overruling hard-liners in his administration.

"He has done three things that I think the world generally approved of: restoring cooperation with the Latin American countries, making a diplomatic agreement with North Korea instead of continuing to have a frigid standoff, and sending Americans to the conference to discuss the future of Iraq with the Iranians and the Syrians," Mr. Clinton said. "Those are, all three, things that signify we're trying to do better in the world."

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Comments

[JesustheLiberal]

03:19 PM on 08/28/2007

Clinton is right about those three items he's pointed out. Do you think the alternative would be good? Give him a break and some credit will ya!

[publicspeaker]

05:37 AM on 08/28/2007

The two parties ARE shamefully similar in many respects, but please don't tell me that you believe President Al Gore's administration would have invaded Iraq after 9/11. They might even have heeded that infamous August 6, 2001 memo "Bin Laden determined to attack U.S." Some things would doubtlessly be the same, but this horrible first decade of the 21st century, you wouldn't recognize.

[researcher]

04:23 PM on 08/27/2007

vote hillary please for more of the same then after hillary please vote for jeb. if there is a dumber group of voters in the industrialized world than americans I have not found them.

remember folks politicans are only a reflection of the voters.

[Qbear]

03:56 PM on 08/27/2007

There's too much history with the Clintons for me too warmly support Hillary, but she and any other Democrat are so heads and shoulders superior to ANY Repig, I could hold my nose and vote for Clinton. After endlessly exhausting and humiliating Cheney/Bush NIGHTMARE anything would be a step in the right direction,(so to speak.)

[outnow]

03:05 PM on 08/27/2007

At www.zmag.org there is a great article by Noam Chomsky entitled, "Cold War II" posted today in which he states that Hillary is an "All options are on the Table" candidate, i.e., don't be a Jimmy Carter type-guy or gal, and threaten 'em with nuclear war. That'll learn 'em.

Maybe Bill just wants to "reinforce" good Bushie behavior and that's why he hangs out with the Bushes (or in the bushes).

Vote for Kucinich or someone who will not go around the UN and will outsource your job. Obama is the same. Edwards might change things.

[condieshoes]

02:51 PM on 08/27/2007

As our currency slides and infrastructure falls apart, technological advantages ruined, the american people are going to be taxed out of their property. All of our roads, bridges, water systems will be owned by private corporations national and multinational. Foreign corporations are buying up water rights all over the world and in the US.

They only people who are going to have a comfortable existence are the ultra wealthy. The rest of us are on a slow slide (it's getting faster) into a standard of living that none of can imagine. Our neighborhoods filled with everybody but us because of the inability to pay the taxes on our houses and land as our population ages.

[RusStyles]

01:55 PM on 08/27/2007

I've tried to warn you HRC sycophants that the Clintonistas can't be trusted. Both are highly gifted prevaricators. They have no equal...The sooner you accept this truth, the sooner you can make the Obama-transition!

[CalculatedRiskTaker]

01:43 PM on 08/27/2007

Grow up people,

You would have thought Clinton had sex with Bush or something. Are you just looking for a reason to hate?

Clinton is right. All three where just Bush NeoCon mistakes in the first place.

[VOTER]

01:40 PM on 08/27/2007

What the hell was Bill Clinton thinking when he gave

this interview?

Wouldn't it be something if his article in Conde Nast

Traveler Magazine, ended his wife's campaign?

[outnow]

02:48 PM on 08/27/2007

Hillary and Bill are both "middle of the road: types. This means selling out to the neoliberal agenda of the Wall Street types. "Neoliberal" is not to be confused with the concept of liberal in the civil libertarian sense. Neoliberal is free trading, i.e., NAFTA and the economic globilization that undermines our working class and niddle class.

Neocons use unilateral military power to back up their imperialism.

Robert Rubin was Bill's financial mentor and Secretary of the Treasury. That sucking sound is well... you know. Bill set the stage for Bush the lesser to unleash the real ugly side of economic imperialism. Neocon/neolib - all the same.

[okAcomputer]

01:21 PM on 08/27/2007

He's contradicting his wife's view on Bush. I have little respect for him now. How can someone who claims to support what he does, support Bush on anything. His voice could do a lot to change this country, if had the backbone to do so.

[Grunty1]

01:08 PM on 08/27/2007

Wow, three decent events somehow make the 7 years of carnage excusable?

[BuckBurris]

12:23 PM on 08/27/2007

Bush the Small, Clinton, Bush the Puny .... they were all puppets. I don't see what good America can hope to get from any such anymore.
Why not look for someone with a different believable message?

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

08:29 AM on 08/27/2007

if 9/11 didn't happen, I wouldn't suspect Bill Clinton was just another Bilderberg NWO mafioso. Bush opened up our eyes to the heart of darkness in Washington, the guile and intrigue, the dirty tricks, psyops, dark-ops, economic hitmen.

[menes3959bc]

08:20 AM on 08/27/2007

i lost faith in clintons. i will NOT vote for any clinton.enough of the clintons, they are no more democrats.

[billu]

07:35 AM on 08/27/2007

I'm sorry but I don't think that every action that any president has taken can be considered wrong. Saying such is the hallmark of a religous fanatic not a rational person.