Agreed, Wolfgang. ;-) Look, Hillary is just doing the usual thing that American politicians and Iranian politicians do to get votes and get people on their side. She is pounding her chest like a silverback gorilla doing a territorial defence routine, thus demonstrating her toughness, her patriotism, her will, and her determination to DEFEND America against all those dire THREATS out there...all those terrible foreigners who "hate democracy" and "want to destroy our way of life".

She's doing the same kind of manipulative posturing that Ahmadinejad does in Iran when he blathers on about evil foreigners who "hate Islam" and who "want to destroy our way of life".

They're all playing the same game. They raise fears about foreign threats. They appeal to national paranioa and national pride and patriotism. They brand their political opponents at home (like Mr Obama...) as being "not tough enough to deal with threats to our national security". Hillary is supposedly tough enough. Obama supposedly isn't. That's an old, OLD game in US politics, and it comes around at every election.

It is, as I have said before, total bullshit. It's bullshit when Hillary does it. It's bullshit when McCaine does it. It's bullshit when (and if) Obama does it. It's bullshit when Ahmadinejad does it. It's bullshit when the Ayatollah does it. Don't expect any of them to stop doing it. Bullshit builds governments. (and armed forces) (and nuclear weapons)

Note that I include Mr Ahmadinejad in my list of major bullshitters. Satisfied? ;-)