Hillary Clinton’s macho, um, muscular stance in foreign affairs has delivered a series of disasters. Yet she remains a true believer in the idea that the US is and should remain the world’s sole superpower. And the New York Times pointed that out only after the New York state primary (well, they glossed over the disasters part).
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