Maybe someone who has been following the political news so far (and I think I have been, to a fairly large extent) can explain something to me. And that’s the extreme persistence of the “Hillary the Hawk” meme. It seems to be a given, on both margins of the body politic, that if elected President, the first thing Mrs. Clinton will do (probably before even changing into her gown for the Inaugural Ball) is to order some bombing or invasion somewhere - and that a Clinton 45 Presidency will inevitably feature bloodstained military adventurism on a (depending on the intensity of one’s views) OIF- or even Vietnam scale.
OK: I realize that Hillary Clinton is no committed dove or knee-jerk antimilitarist - it’s just that so much online commentary about her as a candidate (and speculation about her as President) seems to accept the a priori assumption of a belligerent bloodthirstiness that would make Tamerlane look like a peacenik. Assumptions with, AFAICT, are not backed up by any actual positions expressed by Hillary Clinton. Am I not looking in the right places? Or is this just another artifact of decades of obsessive Clinton-bashing (by both Left and Right)?