'With a mentor like Kissinger, how can you not love dictators?'
US Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton saying Republican rival Donald Trump has a “weird fascination with dictators” is certainly the “pot calling the kettle black,” according to an American political analyst and activist. "In other words, she’s one to talk."
Myles Hoenig told Press TV on Tuesday that former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, known for his support for dictatorships in the Middle East and Latin America, is a mentor and adviser to Clinton on foreign policy.
Speaking at a rally in Akron, Ohio, on Monday night, Clinton bashed Trump over his admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“He gets confused between leadership and dictatorship. He has a hard time remembering who our friends are and who are adversaries are. He has a weird fascination with dictators like Vladimir Putin," she told her supporters.
Hoenig said Clinton’s “focus is primarily directed at Putin, who although is authoritarian, is the elected president. Mrs. Clinton seems to have a problem with elected leaders and often prefers the dictators herself.”
“As secretary of state, she had a terrible record of coddling up to dictators all over the world,” he added.
“If not initiating it, we don’t really know, she was deeply involved in the coup in Honduras, where the elected leader was overthrown by a military dictator who has cemented his country into being a client state of US corporations. The murder rate there due to the coup is one of the highest in the world,” the analyst explained.
Hoenig said there is no question that Clinton "prefers the dictatorships we see in the Persian Gulf states, from Saudi Arabia to the absolute monarchy of Qatar. Although Israel has a parliamentarian form of government, the way it administers Occupied Palestine is no different than an absolute tyrant,” he noted.
“So many of our presidents in the past have supported dictators, if not installing them themselves,” said Hoenig, a Green Party candidate for Congress.
“One of Clinton’s chief mentors in foreign policy is none other than Henry Kissinger, who never met an elected leader he liked, and only preferred brutal dictators, from Pinochet to Suharto, one of the greatest mass murderers of the 20th century,” he stated.
“It’s easy to pick on Trump. He’s a buffoon. And with a massive media campaign against Russia, and Putin in particular, allows Trump to fall into a trap he’s ill-equipped from which to extricate himself,” the commentator said in his concluding remarks.
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