Hillary says the US needs to empathize with its enemies - yes if only FDR had done a better job of feeling Hitler's pain we just might have won that war... oh wait. She calls this 'smart power' which I take it it is her version of Obama's 'don't do dumb things' which as far as I can tell means do nothing but dumb things but call those dumb things nuanced and maybe no one will notice.
Of course it is a fundamental rule of war and diplomacy that you must know your enemy and understand what they're thinking and why they're thinking it - but the connotations of empathy are to feel what another is feeling in order to better sympathize with them - that is a vastly different thing then the cold calculation of understanding.
Since she said this thing during a written speech I have to believe it was not a blunder and was done deliberately, the language is deliberate - worried that the progressive base is going to torpedo her campaign again as it searches for an Obama clone? Sorry, Cankles, but you're going to have to join Code Pink if you want to out lefty Elizabeth Warren.
Of course it is a fundamental rule of war and diplomacy that you must know your enemy and understand what they're thinking and why they're thinking it - but the connotations of empathy are to feel what another is feeling in order to better sympathize with them - that is a vastly different thing then the cold calculation of understanding.
Since she said this thing during a written speech I have to believe it was not a blunder and was done deliberately, the language is deliberate - worried that the progressive base is going to torpedo her campaign again as it searches for an Obama clone? Sorry, Cankles, but you're going to have to join Code Pink if you want to out lefty Elizabeth Warren.
