Architects of war support Hillary Clinton because she:
- Advocated for arming fighters in Syria; also called for missile strikes and a no-fly zone
in Syria
- Has a hawkish, provocative position towards Russia
- Supported, if not facilitated, a military coup in Ukraine, which included neo-Nazi battalions
- Admitted she played a role in the military coup in Honduras
- Guaranteed “Israel’s qualitative military edge;” said she'll “stand up against the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.”
- Pushed hard for the overthrow of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, then bragged about his murder (Gaddafi was killed by a bayonet stab to the anus)
- Warned that the U.S. could "totally obliterate" Iran
- Reportedly used her cell phone to approve of drone strikes that killed as many as 1,000 civilians, including up to 200 children in Pakistan alone
- Backed escalation of the war in Afghanistan
- Voted for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and supported the plan to leave behind up to 20,000 American troops in Iraq
- Supported President Bill Clinton's wars and the power of the president to make war without Congress
Branko Marcetic of
In These Times wrote, “some neocons are so disgusted with [Trump’s] rejection of foreign policy establishment thinking that they’ve declared the unthinkable: They’re going to vote for Hillary Clinton.”
- Mike Morell, ex-director of the CIA, who - days after endorsing Clinton - said the U.S. should covertly kill Russians and Iranians in Syria, and that the U.S. should bomb Syrian government offices, aircraft and presidential guard positions
- John Negroponte, director of national intelligence under George W. Bush
- Leon Panetta, drone warrior and former director of the CIA
- Robert Kagan, husband of Victoria Nuland, Kagan has been called “the most influential neocon in academe”. Has re-labelled himself as a "liberal interventionist"
- Michael Chertoff, secretary of homeland security under GW Bush
- Richard Armitage, former Deputy Secretary of State who was the source who first revealed the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame
- Max Boot, a hard-line war hawk and self-declared “American imperialist”
- Madeline Albright, who said it was “worth it” in describing the 500,000 Iraqi children who died because of U.S. sanctions
- Hank Paulson, former Treasury Secretary and key bailout architect
- Eliot Cohen, founding Signatory for the Project for the New American Century
- Brent Skowcroft, National Security adviser to George HW Bush
- Tom Ridge, secretary of homeland security under GW Bush
- Eric Edelman, national security adviser to then-Vice President Dick Cheney
- John Bellinger III, former legal adviser to Condoleezza Rice
- Michael Hayden, director of the CIA under GW Bush
- Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank and the U.S. trade representative under GW Bush
- Carla Hills, the U.S. trade representative under George H.W. Bush
- Dan Senor, leading neoconservative operative and former foreign policy advisor to Mitt Romney, who declared, “Hillary is more hawkish than any of us!”
Ultra-hawk Robert Kagan described Clinton as a neocon and
"one of us ... I feel comfortable with her on foreign policy... If she pursues a policy which we think she will pursue it’s something that might have been called neocon, but clearly her supporters are not going to call it that; they are going to call it something else.” [Actually, Kagan is already calling it something else: "liberal interventionism".]