...forget the hope that a woman president might prove to be more enlightened than macho men in the matter of peacemaking, and instead rest assured that Hillary would have the cojones to “push the button” that would kill us all.
PAF's hypothesis: Hillary has fully bought into the bipartisan-establishment consensus that the US must pursue an imperial global policy -- including a substantial permanent military presence in the Persian Gulf region -- which enables use of military force as a routine tool of US foreign policy. Of course, she's also under pressure from a gendered culture of hyper-patriotic militarism, but if her core commitments were to a post-imperial foreign policy she would respond differently to those pressures.
